sp. nov., isolated from marine sand.

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, HSMS-29, was isolated from a marine sand sample collected from the Yellow Sea, Republic of Korea. The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HSMS-29 fell within the clade comprising the type strains of species. Strain HSMS-29 exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of 97.2-98.4 % to the type strains of , , , , , , and and 96.3-96.9 % to the type strains of the other species. The genomic ANI values of strain HSMS-29 with the type strains of , , , , , and were 72.66-74.99 %. The DNA-DNA relatedness value between strain HSMS-29 and the type strain of was 17 %. Strain HSMS-29 contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C 7 as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids of strain HSMS-29 were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain HSMS-29 was 65.0 mol% (HPLC) or 64.4 % (genome analysis). Distinguished phenotypic properties, along with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain HSMS-29 is separated from recognized species. On the basis of the data presented here, strain HSMS-29 is considered to represent a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HSMS-29 (=KACC 19870=NBRC 113549).