“…The genus Phaeobacter was introduced by Martens et al (2006) and currently comprises the species Phaeobacter aquaemixtae (Park et al, 2014), Phaeobacter arcticus (Zhang et al, 2008), Phaeobacter caeruleus (Vandecandelaere et al, 2009), Phaeobacter daeponensis (Yoon et al, 2007), Phaeobacter inhibens (Martens et al, 2006), Phaeobacter leonis (Gaboyer et al, 2013), and Phaeobacter gallaeciensis (Ruiz-Ponte et al, 1998; Martens et al, 2006), which is the type species, its type strain being BS107 T = CIP 105210 T = DSM 26640 T but not DSM 17395 (Buddruhs et al, 2013b). The Phaeobacter species were isolated from a mixing zone of the ocean and a freshwater spring, marine arctic sediment, a marine electro-active biofilm, tidal flat sediment, a tidal mud flat, marine surface sediment and rearings and collectors of the scallop Pecten maximus , respectively.…”