%0 Journal Article %A Thevarajoo, Suganthi %A Selvaratnam, Chitra %A Goh, Kian Mau %A Hong, Kar Wai %A Chan, Xin Yue %A Chan, Kok-Gan %A Chong, Chun Shiong %T Vitellibacter aquimaris sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from seawater %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 9 %P 3662-3668 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001248 %K Flavobacteriaceae %K average nucleotide identity %K Marine bacterium %K Vitellibacter aquimaris %K DNA-DNA hybridization %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, yellow–orange-pigmented, rod-shaped bacterium designated D-24T was isolated from seawater from sandy shoreline in Johor, Malaysia. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain D-24T is affiliated with the genus Vitellibacter . It shared more than 96 % sequence similarity with the types of some of the validly published species of the genus: Vitellibacter vladivostokensis KMM 3516T (99.5 %), Vitellibacter soesokkakensis RSSK-12T (97.3 %), Vitellibacter echinoideorum CC-CZW007T (96.9 %), Vitellibacter nionensis VBW088T (96.7 %) and Vitellibacter aestuarii JCM 15496T (96.3 %). DNA–DNA hybridization and genome-based analysis of average nucleotide identity (ANI) of strain D-24T versus V. vladivostokensis KMM 3516T exhibited values of 35.9±0.14 % and 89.26 %, respectively. Strain D-24T showed an even lower ANI value of 80.88 % with V. soesokkakensis RSSK-12T. The major menaquinone of strain D-24T was MK-6, and the predominant fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. Strain D-24T contained major amounts of phosphatidylethanolamine, two lipids and two aminolipids, and a phosphoglycolipid that was different to that of other species of the genus Vitellibacter . The genomic DNA G+C content was 40.6 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic properties, DNA–DNA relatedness, ANI value and chemotaxonomic analyses, strain D-24T represents a novel species of the genus Vitellibacter , for which the name Vitellibacter aquimaris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is D-24T (=KCTC 42708T=DSM 101732T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001248