Table 2.

Unique gut microbial community at genus level in four different coral reef fishes from the South China Sea.

Fish Species	Unique Microbial Community
Oxycheilinus unifasciatus	Alkanindiges, Lysobacter, Olsenella *, Paenibacillus, Porphyromonas, Rubritalea, Solibacillus, Sphingopyxis
Cephalopholis urodeta	BD1-7_clade, Carnobacterium, Desulfovibrio, Dolosigranulum *, Endozoicomonas, Family_XIII_AD3011_group, Helcococcus, Massilia *, Ruminococcaceae_NK4A214_group, Ruminococcaceae_UCG-014, Streptomyces, and uncultured Legionellales bacterium
Lutjanus kasmira	Anaerotruncus, Clostridium, Deinococcus, Faecalibacterium, Hymenobacter, Macellibacteroides *, Nesterenkonia, Nocardiopsis *, Peptococcus *, Rheinheimera, Roseomonas *, Staphylococcus
Gnathodentex aurolineatus	Abiotrophia *, Bosea *, Erysipelotrichaceae_UCG-006, Gemella, Haliscomenobacter *, Leptotrichia *, Veillonella

The genera marked by asterisk (*) are new reports for gut microbes of fishes.