| acanthopleuribacter pedis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a chiton, and description of acanthopleuribacteraceae fam. nov., acanthopleuribacterales ord. nov., holophagaceae fam. nov., holophagales ord. nov. and holophagae classis nov. in the phylum 'acidobacteria'. | strain fyk2218(t) was isolated from a specimen of the chiton acanthopleura japonica, which had been collected from a beach on the boso peninsula in japan. phylogenetic analyses based on 16s rrna gene sequences revealed that the strain belonged to the phylum 'acidobacteria'. the most closely related type strains to strain fyk2218(t) were holophaga foetida tmbs4(t) (83.6 % 16s rrna gene sequence similarity) and geothrix fermentans h-5(t) (83.6 %) in subdivision 8 of the 'acidobacteria'. cells of f ... | 2008 | 18984699 |