Kineobactrum salinum sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment.

Strain M2 ^T , isolated from marine sediment collected at Jeju Island, was an aerobic, Gram-stain-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that formed circular, raised, yellow colonies. Strain M2 ^T grew at 15-42 °C, pH 5.5-9.0 and with 1-9 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on its 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain M2 ^T was closely related to Kineobactrum sediminis F02 ^T (98.0 % sequence similarity). Ubiquinone-8 was determined to be the sole respiratory quinone. Summed feature 3 (C _16 : 1  ω 6 c /C _16 : 1  ω 7 c ) and summed feature 8 (C _18 : 1  ω 7 c /C _18 : 1  ω 6 c ) were identified as the predominant fatty acids. The DNA G+C content and digital DNA-DNA relatedness between strain M2 ^T and K. sediminis F02 ^T were 60.7 mol% and 19.5 %, respectively. Phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine were identified as the major polar lipids. Thus, polyphasic characterization revealed that strain M2 ^T represents a novel species in the genus Kineobactrum , for which the name Kineobactrum salinum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is M2 ^T (=KCTC 72815 ^T =VTCC 910108 ^T ).