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Thalassobius mediterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Ruegeria gelatinovorans as Thalassobius gelatinovorus comb. nov.

¹ Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo (CECT), Universitat de València, Campus de Burjassot, 46100 València, Spain
² Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Universitat de València, Campus de Burjassot, 46100 València, Spain
³ Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Campus de Burjassot, 46100 València, Spain

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D. R. Arahal
arahal{at}uv.es

A Gram-negative, slightly halophilic, non-pigmented, strictly aerobic, chemo-organotrophic bacterium was isolated from sea water off the western Mediterranean coast near Valencia (Spain). This strain was able to grow on several organic acids and amino acids added to a minimal medium as carbon sources, but used few carbohydrates or yielded slight growth when sugars were used. Phylogenetic analysis based on an almost complete 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain XSM19^T was a member of the Roseobacter group within the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’, with its closest phylogenetic neighbour being Ruegeria gelatinovorans (97·6 % sequence similarity). Following a polyphasic approach, it was concluded that strain XSM19^T represents a new genus and novel species, for which the name Thalassobius mediterraneus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is XSM19^T (=CECT 5383^T=CIP 108400^T=CCUG 49438^T). It is also proposed that R. gelatinovorans (Rüger & Höfle 1992) Uchino et al. 1999 is reclassified as Thalassobius gelatinovorus comb. nov.

Published online ahead of print on 8 July 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63842-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Thalassobius mediterraneus sp. nov. CECT 5383^T is AJ878874.

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