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Vibrio gallicus sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the French abalone Haliotis tuberculata

¹ Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate 041, Japan
² Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Ghent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
³ UMR 1931 CNRS/Goëmar, Place Georges Teissier B.P. 74, F29682 Roscoff cedex, France
⁴ UMR 6543 CNRS – Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Centre de Biochimie, Parc Valrose, F06108 Nice cedex 2, France

Correspondence
Tomoo Sawabe
sawabe{at}fish.hokudai.ac.jp

Five alginolytic, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile bacteria were isolated from the gut of the abalone Haliotis tuberculata. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rDNA data indicated that these strains are related to Vibrio wodanis, Vibrio salmonicida, Vibrio logei and Vibrio fischeri (but with <97 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). DNA–DNA hybridization and fluorescence amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting demonstrated that the five strains constituted a single species that was different from all currently known vibrios. The name Vibrio gallicus sp. nov. (type strain, CIP 107863^T=LMG 21878^T=HT2-1^T; DNA G+C content, 43·6–44·3 mol%) is proposed for this novel taxon. Several phenotypic features were disclosed that discriminated V. gallicus from other Vibrio species: V. gallicus can be differentiated from Vibrio halioticoli on the basis of four traits (-galactosidase test and assimilation of three carbon compounds) and from Vibrio superstes by 16 traits.

Published online ahead of print on 12 December 2003 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02804-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of V. gallicus are AY257972 (CIP 107863^T=LMG 21878^T=strain HT2-1^T), AY257971 (CIP 107864=strain HT1-3), AY257973 (CIP 107865=strain HT1-12), AY257974 (CIP 107866=strain HT2-6) and AY257975 (CIP 107867=strain HT3-3).

A table of phenotypic characteristics is available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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