and Jung-Hoon Yoon1 Correspondence

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, BS-B2T, which was isolated from a tidal flat sediment at Boseong in South Korea, was characterized taxonomically. Strain BS-B2T grew optimally at 30 6C, at pH 7.0–8.0 and in the presence of 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. The novel strain exhibited highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (97.4%) to Marivita geojedonensis DPG-138T. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain BS-B2T is closely related to Primorskyibacter sedentarius KMM 9018T, showing 96.5% sequence similarity. Strain BS-B2T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18: 1v7c as the predominant fatty acid. The polar lipid profile of strain BS-B2 T comprised phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified lipid as major components, and differentiated it from the type strains of P. sedentarius and M. geojedonensis. The DNA G+C content of strain BS-B2T was 62.2 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data, demonstrated that strain BS-B2T can be distinguished from phylogenetically related genera as well as P. sedentarius and M. geojedonensis. On the basis of the data presented, strain BS-B2T is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Aestuariivita boseongensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Aestuariivita boseongensis is BS-B2T (5KCTC 42052T5CECT 8532T). The Roseobacter clade in the order Rhodobacterales of the class Alphaproteobacteria (Garrity et al., 2005, 2006), which is known to be one of the most abundant groups in marine environments, makes up a large group of genera, the ma-jority of which have been isolated from marine and salin