%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Shi-qi %A Sun, Qing-lei %A Sun, Yuan-yuan %A Yu, Chao %A Sun, Li %T Muricauda iocasae sp. nov., isolated from deep sea sediment of the South China Sea %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 8 %P 2538-2544 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002870 %K South China Sea %K new species %K taxonomy %K Muricauda %I Microbiology Society, %X In this study, we reported a novel yellow-pigmented, Gram-stain-negative bacterium with appendages, designated as strain L2T, isolated from the South China Sea. Growth of strain L2T occurred at 22–40 °C (optimum, 37 °C), pH 6.0–10.0 (pH 7.0) and with 0–8 % (w/v) NaCl (2 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on its 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain L2T belonged to the genus Muricauda . The close phylogenetic neighbours of strain L2T were Muricauda marina H19-56T, Muricauda ruestringensis B1T, Muricauda antarctica Ar-22T, Muricauda taeanensis 105T and Muricauda flavescens SW-62T (96.4 %, 95.9 %, 95.9 %, 95.8 % and 94.5 % identities, respectively). The genomic DNA G+C content of strain L2T was 51.3±4.6 mol%. Theg major isoprenoid quinone was MK-6 (100.0 %). The polar lipids contained phosphatidylethanolamine and two unidentified lipids. The major fatty acids (>10 % of total fatty acids) were iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (30.3 %), iso-C15 : 1 G (20.6 %) and iso-C15 : 0 (17.6 %). Phylogenetic, physiological, biochemical and morphological analysis suggested that this strain represents a novel species of genus Muricauda , and the name Muricauda iocasae sp. nov. is proposed with the type species L2T (=CCTCC AB 2017193 T=KCTC 62196T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002870