A novel Gram-stain-negative bacterium, strain CY03T, was isolated from sediment of the Yellow Sea, PR China. Cells of strain CY03T were rods, aerobic and non-flagellated. Growth occurred at 5-40 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 5.5-9.5 (pH 7.5) and with 0.5-9.0 % NaCl (1.5-2.0 %). The 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison showed affiliation to the family Rhodobacteraceae with Puniceibacterium confluentis (97.0 %) as the most closely related species, followed by members of the genus Pseudooceanicola, Pseudooceanicola antarcticus (96.8 %) and Pseudooceanicola nitratireducens (96.7 %). The major cellular fatty acids were cyclo-C19 : 0 ω8c, C16 : 0, summed feature 8 (C18 : 1 ω7c and/or C18 : 1 ω6c) and 11-methyl C18 : 1 ω7c. The polar lipids consisted of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified phospholipid, one unidentified aminolipid and five unidentified lipids. The predominant respiratory quinone was Q-10. The DNA G+C content of the type strain was 62.8 mol%. Based on the results of the polyphasic characterization for strain CY03T, it represents a novel species of a novel genus of the family Rhodobacteraceae, for which the name Pseudopuniceibacterium sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CY03T (=CCTCC AB 2017195T=KCTC 62198T).
Keywords: Pseudopuniceibacterium sediminis; Rhodobacteraceae; sediment.