Gramella sabulilitoris sp. Nov., isolated from a marine sand

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, motile by gliding and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated HSMS-1^T, was isolated from a marine sand collected from the Yellow Sea, Republic of Korea, and identified by a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that HSMS-1^T fell within the clade comprising the type strains of species of the genus Gramella. HSMS-1^T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 99.0 and 98.7% to the type strains of Gramella echinicola and Gramella sediminilitoris and of 93.3–98.5% to the type strains of the other species of the genus Gramella. The ANI and dDDH values between HSMS-1^T and the type strains of G. echinicola, Gramella gaetbulicola, Gramella forsetii, Gramella salexigens, Gramella portivictoriae and Gramella flava were 72.6–79.3% and 17.4–22.2%, respectively. Mean DNA–DNA relatedness value between HSMS-1^T and the type strain of G. sediminilitoris was 18%. HSMS-1^T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C_15:0, anteiso-C_15:0, iso-C_17:0 3-OH and iso-C_16:0 as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipid of HSMS-1^T was phosphatidylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content of HSMS-1^T from genomic sequence data was 39.2%. Distinguishing phenotypic properties, along with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that HSMS-1^T is separated from recognized species of the genus Gramella. On the basis of the data presented, strain HSMS-1^T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Gramella, for which the name Gramella sabulilitoris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HSMS-1^T(=KACC 19899^T=NBRC 113648^T).