RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Gan, Longzhan A1 Long, Xiufeng A1 Zhang, Heming A1 Hou, Yanyan A1 Tian, Jiewei A1 Zhang, Yuqin A1 Tian, YongqiangYR 2018 T1 Halomonas saliphila sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saline soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 4 SP 1153 OP 1159 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002644 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel, Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, motile and moderately halophilic bacterium, designated strain LCB169T, was isolated from a saline soil sample from Gansu Province, PR China. The cells of LCB169T grew at 10–52 °C (optimum 30 °C), at pH 6.0–10.0 (optimum pH 8.0) and in the presence of 0–17 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 10–15 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and concatenated 16S rRNA, gyrB and rpoD genes sequences revealed that LCB169T represented a member of the genus Halomonas in the class Gammaproteobacteria . The most closely related species were Halomonas daqingensis DQD2-30T (98.0 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Halomonas kenyensis AIR-2T (97.8 %) and Halomonas desiderata FB2T (97.5 %). DNA–DNA relatedness values between LCB169T and H. daqingensis CGMCC 1.6443T, H. desiderata DSM 9502T and H. kenyensis DSM 17331T were 33, 35 and 38 %, respectively. The polar lipids were identified as diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine and three unidentified phospholipids. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c, C16 : 0, C16 : 1ω7c and C12 : 0 3-OH. The genomic DNA G+C content was 66.1 mol% and the predominant respiratory quinone was Q-9. On the basis of the results of phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses and DNA–DNA hybridization relatedness values, LCB169T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Halomonas, for which the name Halomonas saliphila sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LCB169T (=CGMCC 1.15818T=KCTC 52618T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002644