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Tamlana agarivorans sp. nov., isolated from seawater off Jeju Island in Korea

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), PO Box 115, Yusong, Taejon, Republic of Korea

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Jung-Hoon Yoon
jhyoon{at}kribb.re.kr

A Gram-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped, agarolytic bacterial strain, designated JW-26^T, was isolated from seawater off Jeju Island in Korea, and was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic investigation. Strain JW-26^T grew optimally at pH 7.0–8.0, at 30 °C and in the presence of approximately 2 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain JW-26^T joins Tamlana crocina HST1-43^T, with which it exhibited a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity value of 95.5 %. Strain JW-26^T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C_{15 : 0}, C_{15 : 0} and iso-C_{15 : 1} as the major fatty acids. The DNA G+C content was 36.8 mol%. There were no distinct phenotypic and, particularly, chemotaxonomic properties to differentiate strain JW-26^T from the genus Tamlana. DNA–DNA relatedness data and differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic distinctiveness, demonstrated that strain JW-26^T is distinguishable from the type strain of T. crocina. On the basis of phenotypic, phylogenetic and genetic data, therefore, strain JW-26^T represents a novel species within the genus Tamlana, for which the name Tamlana agarivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JW-26^T (=KCTC 22176^T =CCUG 55327^T).