Parerythrobacter aestuarii sp. nov., Isolated from Seawater in the Tidal Region of Taizhou

A yellow, Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, and rod-shaped strain, designated as C18 T , was isolated from seawater in the tidal region of Taizhou. Growth of strain C18 T occurs at 20–45 °C, at pH 5.5–8.0 and with 1.0–8.0% (w/v) NaCl. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain C18 T shared sequence identities with the genera Erythrobacter (< 98.4%), Qipengyuania (< 98.0%), Altererythrobacter (< 96.4%), Parerythrobacter (< 96.2%), Aurantiacibacter (< 96.2%), Tsuneonella (< 96.0%), Pelagerythrobacter (< 96.0%), Alteriqipengyuania (< 95.9%), and Parapontixanthobacter (< 95.7%) type strains. While the phylogenomic tree based on single-copy orthologous clusters revealed that strain C18 T was stably clustered into the genus Parerythrobacter . Average nucleotide identity and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values of strain C18 T and Parerythrobacter type strains were 73.5–75.2% and 18.5–19.4%, respectively, which were lower than the species delineation thresholds. The sole respiratory quinones were identified as ubiquinone-10. The major fatty acids (> 10%) were C 17:1 ω 6 c and summed feature 8 (C 18:1 ω 7 c and/or C 18:1 ω 6 c ). Polar lipids included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, sphingoglycolipid, an unidentified phospholipid, and an unidentified aminophospholipid. Based on the genetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic results, strain C18 T is concluded to represent a novel species in the genus Parerythrobacter , for which the name Parerythrobacter aestuarii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is C18 T (= KCTC 82594 T = MCCC 1K05109 T ).