A Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, non-gliding, aerobic, rod-shaped bacterium, designated WD-2-2 T , was isolated from a tidal flat of Wando, an island of South Korea, and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic analysis. Strain WD-2-2 T grew optimally at 30 6C, at pH 7.0-8.0 and in the presence of 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain WD-2-2 T belonged to the genus Winogradskyella, clustering coherently with the type strain of Winogradskyella litorisediminis. Strain WD-2-2 T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 97.4 % to W. litorisediminis DPS-8 T and 94.5-96.6 % to the type strains of the other species of the genus Winogradskyella. Strain WD-2-2 T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C 15 : 1 G, iso-C 17 : 0 3-OH and iso-C 15 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids detected in strain WD-2-2 T were phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified lipid and one unidentified aminolipid. The DNA G+C content was 36.4 mol%, and DNA-DNA relatedness with W. litorisediminis DPS-8 T was 13 %. Differential phenotypic properties, together with its phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain WD-2-2 T is separate from recognized species of the genus Winogradskyella. On the basis of the data presented, strain WD-2-2 T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Winogradskyella, for which the name Winogradskyella wandonensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is WD-2-2 T (5KCTC 32579 T 5CECT 8445 T ).The genus Winogradskyella, a member of family Flavobacteriaceae (phylum Bacteroidetes), was proposed by Nedashkovskaya et al. (2005) with the descriptions of three novel species, Winogradskyella thalassocola (the type species of the genus), W. epiphytica and W. eximia. At the time of writing, the genus comprised 17 species with validly published names (http://www.bacterio.net/winogradskyella.html; Euzéby, 1997). All known members of the genus Winogradskyella have been isolated from marine environments or marine organisms (Lau et al., 2005;Nedashkovskaya et al., 2005Nedashkovskaya et al., , 2009Nedashkovskaya et al., , 2012Pinhassi et al., 2009;Romanenko et al., 2009;Ivanova et al., 2010;Kim & Nedashkovskaya, 2010;Yoon et al., 2011;Lee et al., 2012; Begum et al., 2013;Lee et al., 2013). In this study, we describe a Winogradskyella-like bacterial strain, designated WD-2-2 T , collected from a tidal flat sediment. The aim of the present work was to determine the exact taxonomic position of strain WD-2-2 T by polyphasic taxonomic characterization which included determination of chemotaxonomic and other phenotypic properties, detailed phylogenetic investigations based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and DNA-DNA hybridization.A sample of tidal flat sediment was collected from Wando, an island of South Korea, on the South Sea, and used as the source for isolation of bacterial strains. Strain WD-2-2 T was isolated by the standard dilution plating technique at 25 u C on marine agar 2216 (MA; Becton Dickinson) and cultivate...