@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003329, author = "Cao, Junwei and Ding, Wanzhen and Lai, Qiliang and Wei, Yuli and Liu, Rulong and Wang, Li and Fang, Jiasong", title = "Alteromonas indica Lin et al. 2018 is a later heterotypic synonym of Salinimonas sediminis Cao et al. 2018", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2019", volume = "69", number = "5", pages = "1423-1425", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003329", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003329", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "heterotypic synonym", keywords = "Alteromonas indica", keywords = "Salinimonas sediminis", abstract = " Alteromonas indica IO390401T was compared with Salinimonas sediminis N102T to examine the taxonomic relationship between the two type strains. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of A. indica IO390401T shared high similarity (99.9 %) with that of S. sediminis N102T. The results of phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the two strains formed a tight cluster within the genus Salinimonas . Whole genomic comparison between the two strains revealed an average nucleotide identity of 99.2 % and a digital DNA–DNA hybridization estimate of 92.6 %, strongly indicating that the two strains represented a single species. In addition, neither strain displayed any striking difference in metabolic, physiological or chemotaxonomic features. Therefore, we propose Alteromonas indica as a later heterotypic synonym of Salinimonas sediminis .", }