RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Lee, Inae A1 Jang, Gwang Il A1 Cho, Yirang A1 Yoon, Soo Jung A1 Pham, Ha My A1 Nguyen, Anh Vu A1 Lee, Yung Mi A1 Park, Hyun A1 Rhee, Tae Siek A1 Kim, Sae Hun A1 Hwang, Chung YeonYR 2020 T1 Sandaracinobacter neustonicus sp. nov., isolated from the sea surface microlayer in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, and emended description of the genus Sandaracinobacter JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 70 IS 8 SP 4698 OP 4703 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004333 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, facultatively anaerobic and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated PAMC 28131T, was isolated from a sea surface microlayer sample in the open water of the Pacific Ocean. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain PAMC 28131T revealed an affiliation to the genus Sandaracinobacter with the closest species Sandaracinobacter sibiricus RB16-17T (sequence similarity of 98.2 %). Strain PAMC 28131T was able to grow optimally with 0.5–1.0 % NaCl and at pH 6.5–7.0 and 30 °C. The polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, two unidentified phospholipids, an unidentified aminolipid, an unidentified glycolipid and an unidentified lipid. The major cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were C18 : 1  ω6c and/or C18 : 1  ω7c, (42.6 %), C17 : 1  ω6c (19.3 %) and C16 : 1  ω6c and/or C16 : 1  ω7c (15.8 %), and the respiratory quinone was Q-10. The genomic DNA G+C content was 65.3 mol%. The phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data showed that strain PAMC 28131T could be clearly distinguished from S. sibiricus RB16-17T. Thus, strain PAMC 28131T should be classified as representing a novel species in the genus Sandaracinobacter , for which the name Sandaracinobacter neustonicus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is PAMC 28131T (=KCCM 43127T=JCM 30734T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004333