Description of Gracilibacillus phocaeensis sp. nov., a new halophilic bacterium isolated from a Senegalian human stool

Abstract Using Taxonogenomics method, we described here Gracilibacillus phocaeensis strain Marseille-P380, a new species previously isolated from a salty stool of a 20-year-old man from N’Diop. It is Gram-positive, aerobic and motile bacilli. The major fatty acids are C15:0 anteiso (59 %), C16:0 (16 %) and C17:0 anteiso (11 %). Strain Marseille-P3801 exhibits a 98.45% sequence similarity with Gracilibacillus thailandensis TP2-8, the phylogenetically closest species. Its genome is 4.66 Mb with 39.6 mol% G+C content.