Yi Li,Shijie Bai,Caiyun Yang,Qiliang Lai,Huajun Zhang,Zhangran Chen,Jun Wei,Wei Zheng,Yun Tian,Tianling Zheng,International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2013. 63: 2043-2048.

A Gram-negative, short-rod-shaped, orange-pigmented bacterium, strain LYYY01^T, was isolated from a mangrove sediment sample collected from Yunxiao mangrove National Nature Reserve, Fujian Province, China. 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons showed that strain LYYY01^Tis a member of the familyFlavobacteriaceae, forming a distinct lineage with species of the generaMeridianimaribacter, Sediminibacter, GelidibacterandSubsaximicrobium. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain LYYY01^Tand the type strains of related species ranged from 93.9 to 90.9%. Growth was observed at temperatures from 10 to 38 °C, at salinities from 1 to 7% and at pH from 6 to 10. The DNA G+C content of the strain was 38.6 mol% and the major respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6 (MK-6). The major fatty acids were iso-C_15:1(27.6%), iso-C_15:0(24.0%), iso-C_17:03-OH (12.0%) and iso-C_16:03-OH (6.2%). According to its morphology, physiology, fatty acid composition and 16S rRNA gene sequence data, strain LYYY01^Tis considered to represent a novel species of a new genus in the familyFlavobacteriaceae, for which the nameMangrovimonas yunxiaonensisgen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain ofMangrovimonas yunxiaonensisis LYYY01^T(=CGMCC 1.12280^T=LMG 27142^T).