Altererythrobacter maritimus sp. nov., isolated from seawater

A rod-shaped, Gram-staining-negative and orange-pigmented bacterium, designated strain HME9302(T), was isolated from seawater of the Yellow Sea in the Republic of Korea. The phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HME9302(T) formed a lineage within the genus Altererythrobacter, and was most closely related to Altererythrobacter aurantiacus 030(T) with 96.7% sequence similarity. The major fatty acids were summed feature 8 (comprising C-18:1 omega 7c and/or C-18:1 omega 6c), summed feature 3 (comprising C-16:1 omega 7c and/or C-16:1 omega 6c) and C-16:0 . The major respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, sphingoglycolipid and four unidentified lipids. The DNA G+C content was 60.8 mol%. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain HME9302(T) represents a novel species of the genus Altererythrobacter, for which the name Altererythrobacter maritimus sp. nov. is proposed with the type strain HME9302(T) (=KCTC 32463(T)=KACC 17617(T)=CECT 8417(T)).