Nocardiopsis coralliicola sp. nov., isolated from the gorgonian coral, Menella praelonga

Jie Li, Jian Yang, Wen-Yong Zhu, Jie He, Xin-Peng Tian, Qiong Xie, Si Zhang, Wen-Jun Li

¹Key Laboratory of Marine Bio-resources Sustainable Utilization CAS, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, PR China

²Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China, Ministry of Education and Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, PR China

³State Key Lab of Space Medicine Fundamentals and Application, China Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing 100094, PR China

Correspondence
Si Zhang zhsimd{at}scsio.ac.cn Wen-Jun Li wjli{at}ynu.edu.cn or liact{at}hotmail.com

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2012; 62(Pt 7):1653–1658 · https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.035402-0

Abstract

An actinobacterial strain, SCSIO 10427^T, was isolated from a gorgonian coral sample collected from Weizhou Island, Guangxi province, China, and its taxonomic position was investigated using a polyphasic approach. The organism was found to have a range of chemical and morphological properties consistent with its classification in the genus Nocardiopsis. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain SCSIO 10427^T and type strains of other recognized members of the genus Nocardiopsis was lower than 98.4 %. Furthermore, phenotypic characteristics revealed that the strain differed from the currently recognized species of the genus Nocardiopsis. Therefore, strain SCSIO 10427^T represents a novel species of the genus Nocardiopsis, for which the name Nocardiopsis coralliicola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SCSIO 10427^T ( = CCTCC AA 2011010^T = DSM 45611^T).