“…The genus Gramella , a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes , was proposed by Nedashkovskaya et al (2005) with the description of a single recognized species, Gramella echinicola , isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius collected from Troitsa Bay, Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan. Subsequently, seven further species of the genus Gramella with validly published names, Gramella portivictoriae (Lau et al , 2005), Gramella marina (Nedashkovskaya et al , 2010), Gramella gaetbulicola (Cho et al , 2011), Gramella aestuarii (Jeong et al , 2013), Gramella flava (Liu et al , 2014), Gramella oceani (Hameed et al , 2014) and Gramella planctonica (Shahina et al , 2014a, b), have been described. Members of the genus Gramella have been isolated from marine organisms and marine environments (Nedashkovskaya et al , 2005, 2010; Lau et al , 2005; Cho et al , 2011; Jeong et al , 2013; Hameed et al , 2014; Liu et al , 2014).…”