Aliidiomarina iranensis sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic bacterium from a coastal-marine wetland A novel Gram-stain-negative, straight rod-shaped, non-pigmented, slightly halophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium, designated strain GBPy7 T , was isolated from a sample of the coastalmarine wetland Gomishan in Iran. Cells of strain GBPy7 T were motile. Growth occurred on media with 1-15 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 3 %), at pH 7-10 (optimum pH 8.5) and at 4-45 8C (optimum 37 8C). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison indicated that strain GBPy7 T belonged to the family Idiomarinaceae. Its closest relatives were Aliidiomarina shirensis AIS T (98.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and other Aliidiomarina species (95.9-94.2 %), together with Idiomarina seosinensis CL-SP19 T (94.3 %) and Idiomarina fontislapidosi F23 T (94.3 %). The major cellular fatty acids of the isolate were iso-C 15 : 0 , iso-C 17 : 0 , iso-C 17 : 1 v9c and C 18 : 1 v7c and its polar lipid profile comprised phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, one unknown phospholipid and one unknown aminophospholipid. Cells of strain GBPy7 T contained ubiquinone Q-8. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of this strain was 51.6 mol%. The level of DNA-DNA relatedness between strain GBPy7 T and A. shirensis IBRC-M 10414 T was 21 %. The physiological, biochemical, genotypic and phylogenetic differences between strain GBPy7 T and other previously described taxa indicate that the strain represents a novel species of the genus Aliidiomarina within the family Idiomarinaceae, for which the name Aliidiomarina iranensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GBPy7 T (5IBRC-M 10763 T 5CECT 8339 T ).