sp. nov., isolated from surface sediment of the Bering Sea.

Strain S02 was isolated from a surface sediment sample collected from the Bering Sea (64.3361° N, 170.9541° W). The cells were Gram-stain-negative, motile and rod-shaped. The temperature range for growth was 4-25 °C and the pH for growth was 5.5-9.0, with optimum growth occurring at 20-25 °C and pH 7.0-8.0. Growth occurred in the presence of 0-7 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2-5 %). Strain S02 had menaquinone-8 as the major respiratory quinone and summed feature 8 (C 7 and/or C 6), C16:0, C cyclo, summed feature 3 (C 7 /C 7), C and C as major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and two glycolipids. The genomic DNA G+C content was approximately 63.8 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain S02 belonged to the genus . Strain S02 showed the highest sequence similarities to Cr7-05 (97.5 %), CM5-1 (97.7 %), KMM 9415 (97.4 %), E84 (97.44 %), LIV5 (97.1 %) and DSM 17137 (96.7 %). On the basis of phylogenetic analyses and phenotypic characteristics, a novel species of the genus , sp. nov., is proposed, with the type strain S02 (=JCM 33772=CCTCC AB 2019343).