sp. nov., isolated from the surface of a marine red alga sp.

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain Lxc1, was isolated from the surface of a marine red alga, sp., which was collected from the coastal regions in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, China. Colonies of the strain were orange-yellow, circular and smooth. The 16S rRNA gene of strain Lxc1 had maximum sequence similarity with E4-9a (97.1 %), followed by PAMC 27137, DJ3, AKS293 and AKS 432 (similarities < 96.4 %). Phylogenetic analysis showed strain Lxc1 formed a tight cluster with E4-9a and DJ3, but represented a novel lineage belonging to the genus . The predominant fatty acids were iso-C G (18.3 %), iso-C (16.7 %), iso-C 3-OH (10.6 %) and iso-C 3-OH (8.6 %). Menaquinone-6 (MK-6) was the only respiratory quinone present. The DNA G+C content of strain Lxc1 was 31.7 mol%. Combining the results above, it was ascertained that strain Lxc1 represented a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Lxc1 ( = MCCC 1A01567 = KCTC 42808).