Reichenbachia agariperforans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the phylum Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides

1 Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. 100 Let Vladivostoku 159, 690022, Vladivostok, Russia 2 Tokyo Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd, 3-6-6 Asahi-machi, Machida-shi, Tokyo 194-8533, Japan 3 Institute of Marine Biology of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pal'chevskogo St 17, 690032, Vladivostok, Russia Correspondence Makoto Suzuki makoto.suzuki{at}kyowa.co.jp A heterotrophic, pigmented, agarolytic, gliding bacterium was isolated from a seawater sample collected from the Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan, during June 2000. 16S rDNA sequence analysis indicated that the novel bacterium, strain KMM 3525 T , was a member of the phlyum Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides . On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, genotypic and phylogenetic data, it is proposed that the marine bacterium represents the sole species of a novel genus, Reichenbachia , the type species of which is Reichenbachia agariperforans (KMM 3525 T =IFO 16625 T =JCM 11238 T ). Abbreviations: CFB, Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides The GenBank accession number for the 16S rDNA sequence of Reichenbachia agariperforans KMM 3525 T is AB058919 .