%0 Journal Article %A Park, Sooyeon %A Kim, In Kyu %A Lee, Jung-Sook %A Yoon, Jung-Hoon %T Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris sp. nov., isolated from marine sand %D 2019 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 69 %N 10 %P 3230-3236 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003614 %K Marine sand %K novel species %K Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris %K polyphasic taxonomy %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, HSMS-29T, was isolated from a marine sand sample collected from the Yellow Sea, Republic of Korea. The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HSMS-29T fell within the clade comprising the type strains of Sulfitobacter species. Strain HSMS-29T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of 97.2–98.4 % to the type strains of Sulfitobacter mediterraneus , Sulfitobacter porphyrae , Sulfitobacter marinus , Sulfitobacter pontiacus , Sulfitobacter litoralis , Sulfitobacter brevis , Sulfitobacter noctilucicola and Sulfitobacter dubius and 96.3–96.9 % to the type strains of the other Sulfitobacter species. The genomic ANI values of strain HSMS-29T with the type strains of S. mediterraneus , S. marinus , S. pontiacus , S. litoralis , S. brevis , S. noctilucicola and S. dubius were 72.66–74.99 %. The DNA–DNA relatedness value between strain HSMS-29T and the type strain of S. porphyrae was 17 %. Strain HSMS-29T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18 : 1 ω7c as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids of strain HSMS-29T were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain HSMS-29T was 65.0 mol% (HPLC) or 64.4 % (genome analysis). Distinguished phenotypic properties, along with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain HSMS-29T is separated from recognized Sulfitobacter species. On the basis of the data presented here, strain HSMS-29T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Sulfitobacter , for which the name Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HSMS-29T (=KACC 19870T=NBRC 113549T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003614