sp. nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from an enrichment system with saline lake sediment.

A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, and slightly halophilic alphaproteobacterium, designated strain EGI FJ00035, was isolated from enrichment sediment samples of a saline lake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, PR China. The taxonomic position of the isolate was determined using the polyphasic taxonomic and phylogenomic analyses. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain EGI FJ00035 formed a distinct clade with '' UJN715 and '' lm93 with sequence similarities of 98.44 and 98.22 %, respectively, while sharing less than 96.7 % with other valid type strains. The novel isolate could be distinguished from other species of the genus by its distinct phenotypic, physiological, and genotypic characteristics. Optimal growth of strain EGI FJ00035 occurred on marine agar 2216 at pH 7.0 and 30 °C. The major respiratory quinone was Q-10, while the major fatty acids (>5 %) were C cyclo ω8, summed feature 8 (C ω6 and/or C ω7), C, C, and iso-C. The detected polar lipids included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, unidentified aminophospholipids, unidentified glycolipids, and an unidentified lipid. Based on its genome sequence, the G+C content of strain EGI FJ00035 was 63.2 mol%. The average nucleotide identity, average amino acid identity, and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values of strain EGI FJ00035 against related members of the genus were below the thresholds for delineation of a novel species. According our polyphasic taxonomic data, strain EGI FJ00035 represents a new species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of the proposed novel isolate is EGI FJ00035 (=KCTC 92251=CGMCC 1.19480).