RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Park, Sooyeon A1 Choi, Jeehyun A1 Choi, Su Jung A1 Yoon, Jung-HoonYR 2017 T1 Paracoccus litorisediminis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 11 SP 4760 OP 4766 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002373 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or short rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated GHD-05T, was isolated from a tidal flat on the Yellow Sea in South Korea. Strain GHD-05T grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0–8.0 and in the presence of 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. The phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain GHD-05T belonged to the genus P aracoccus , clustering with the type strain of P aracoccus aestuariivivens. Strain GHD-05T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 97.0–99.1 % to the type strains of P aracoccus aestuariivivens, P aracoccus limosus, P aracoccus laeviglucosivorans and P aracoccus marinus, and of 94.2–96.9 % to the type strains of the other Paracoccus species. Strain GHD-05T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18 : 1 ω7c as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids detected in strain GHD-05T were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified glycolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain GHD-05T was 64.1 mol% and its DNA–DNA relatedness values with the type strains of P. aestuariivivens , P aracoccus limosus, P. laeviglucosivorans and P. marinus were 13–32 %. Differential phenotypic properties, together with its phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain GHD-05T is separated from recognized Paracoccus species. On the basis of the data presented here, strain GHD-05T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Paracoccus , for which the name Paracoccus litorisediminis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GHD-05T (=KCTC 52978T=NBRC 112902T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002373