Tsuneonella suprasediminis sp. nov., isolated from the Pacific Ocean

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped and aerobic bacterial strain, named Ery12^T, was isolated from the overlying water of the Lau Basin in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Strain Ery12^T showed high 16S rRNA gene sequences similarity to Tsuneonella flava MS1-4^T (99.9 %), T. mangrovi MCCC 1K03311^T (98.1 %), Altererythrobacter ishigakiensis NBRC 107699^T (97.3 %) and exhibited ≤97.0 % sequence similarity with other type strains of species with validly published names. Growth was observed in media with 0-10.0 % NaCl (optimum 0-1.0 %, w/v), pH 5.0-9.5 (optimum 6.0-7.0) and 10-42 °C (optimum 30-37 °C). The predominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone 10 (Q-10). The major cellular fatty acid was summed feature 8 (C_18 : 1  ω7c and/or C_18 : 1  ω6c). The major polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, phosphatidyglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, three unidentified glycolipids, one unidentified aminoglycolipid and one unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content was 60.8 %. The ANI and in silico DDH values between strain Ery12^T and the type strains of its closely related species were 71.0- 91.8 % and 19.5- 44.6 %, respectively. According to the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, phylogenetic and genomic data, strain Ery12^T represents a novel species of the genus Tsuneonella, for which the name Tsuneonella suprasediminis is proposed. The type strain is Ery12^T (=CGMCC 1.16500 ^T=MCCC 1A04421^T=KCTC 62388^T). We further propose to reclassify Altererythrobacter rhizovicinus and Altererythrobacter spongiae as Pelagerythrobacter rhizovicinus comb. nov. and Altericroceibacterium spongiae comb. nov., respectively.