%0 Journal Article %A Wiese, Jutta %A Saha, Mahasweta %A Wenzel-Storjohann, Arlette %A Weinberger, Florian %A Schmaljohann, Rolf %A Imhoff, Johannes F. %T Vicingus serpentipes gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Flavobacteriales from the North Sea %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 1 %P 333-340 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002509 %K Vicingus serpentipes %K North Sea %K polyphasic taxonomy %I Microbiology Society, %X A new member of the Flavobacteriales was isolated from the surface of a stone collected on the German North Sea shore. The bacterium, strain ANORD5T, is a mesophilic, chemoheterotrophic aerobic, typical marine bacterium. Optimal growth was observed at 20–30 °C, pH 7.0–8.5 and 1–2 % sea salt. The 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed a distant relationship with the representatives of the Cryomorphaceae , with less than 90 % sequence similarity. Strain ANORD5T forms a cluster together with Owenweeksia hongkongensis UST20020801T (89.9 %), Cryomorpha ignava 1-22T (87.9 %), Luteibaculum oceani CC-AMWY-103BT (88.1 %) and Phaeocystidibacter luteus PG2S01T (87.3 %). Strain ANORD5T has a low DNA G+C content (31 mol%). Based on morphological, physiological and phylogenetic data, strain ANORD5T is considered a type strain of a new species and a new genus of the family Cryomorphaceae for which the name Vicingus serpentipes is proposed. The type strain is ANORD5T (=NCIMB 15042T=DSM 103558T=MTCC 12686T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002509