%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Hongming %A Lu, Peng %A Jin, Lei %A Zhu, Guoping %T Flavobacterium luticocti sp. nov., isolated from wastewater %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 2 %P 369-373 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001634 %K Flavobacterium luticocti %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium, designated strain xz20T, was isolated from the wastewater of a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Xuzhou, China. The taxonomic status of strain xz20T was determined using a polyphasic approach. Growth occurred at 15–40 °C (optimum, 25–37 °C), at pH 6.0–8.5 (optimum, pH 7.0) and with 0–3 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 1–2 %). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain xz20T was a member of the genus Flavobacterium and shared the highest similarity with Flavobacterium . dongtanense LW30T (95.85 %) and Flavobacterium . haoranii LQY-7T (95.20 %). The major respiratory quinone of strain xz20T was menaquinone 6 (MK-6), and the major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 1 G and summed feature 9 (iso-C17 : 1 ω9c and/or C16 : 0 10-methyl). The major polar lipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain xz20T was 32.9 mol%. Based on the phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain xz20T represents a novel species belonging to the genus Flavobacterium , for which the name Flavobacterium luticocti is proposed. The type strain is xz20T (=CCTCC AB 2015421T=JCM 31174T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001634