“…At the time of writing, the family Chitinophagaceae comprises 24 genera with validly published names, including the recently identified genera Arachidicoccus (Madhaiyan et al, 2015), Asinibacterium (Lee et al, 2013), Cnuella (Zhao et al, 2014), Flaviaesturariibacter (Kang et al, 2015), Heliimonas (Leandro et al, 2013), Hydrobacter (Eder et al, 2015), Parafilimonas (Kim et al, 2014), Taibaiella (Zhang et al, 2013), Thermoflavifilum (Anders et al, 2014) and Vibrionimonas (Albert et al, 2014). Members of the family Chitinophagaceae are aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, usually non-motile, rod-shaped and contain menaquinone-7 (MK-7) as the isoprenoid quinone, and iso-C 15 : 0 , iso-C 17 : 0 3-OH and iso-C 15 : 1 G as the major fatty acids (Kämpfer et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2014).…”