Strain Ery9T, isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean, and strain Ery22T, isolated from deep-sea sediment of the Indian Ocean, were subjected to a taxonomic study using a polyphasic approach. Cells of the two strains were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped. They produced yellow pigments and lacked bacteriochlorophyll a. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain Ery9T was closely related to Croceicoccus naphthovorans PQ-2T (with 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 97.7 %), and strain Ery22T was closely related to Croceicoccusmarinus E4A9T (98.3 %). The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain Ery9T and strain Ery22T was 96.6 %. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that strains Ery9T and Ery22T fell within the cluster of the genus Croceicoccus and represented two independent lineages. The average nucleotide identity (ANI) values and the genome-to-genome distances between strains Ery9T and Ery22T and the type strains of species of the genus Croceicoccus with validly published names were 73.7–78.4 % and 20.1–22.3 %, respectively. The major respiratory quinone of the two isolates was ubiquinone-10 (Q-10). The DNA G+C contents of strains Ery9T and Ery22T were 62.8 and 62.5 mol%, respectively. Differential phylogenetic distinctiveness and chemotaxonomic differences, together with phenotypic properties, revealed that strains Ery9T and Ery22T could be differentiated from their closely related species. Therefore, it is concluded that strains Ery9T and Ery22T represent two novel species of the genus Croceicoccus, for which the names Croceicoccus pelagius sp. nov. (type strain Ery9T=CGMCC 1.15358T=DSM 101479T) and Croceicoccus mobilis sp. nov. (type strain Ery22T=CGMCC 1.15360T=DSM 101481T), are proposed.
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