Strain 12-3T was isolated from seawater of the Guanyinshan Coast, Xiamen, Fujian Province, PR China. The bacterium was Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic, oxidase-positive and catalase-negative. Growth of strain 12-3T occurred at 10–37 °C (optimum, 20–30 °C), at pH 5.0–11.0 (optimum, pH 7.0–8.0) and at a salinity range of 0–10 % (optimum, 3–5 %). The results of phylogenetic analysis based on its 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain 12-3T belonged to the genus
Paracoccus
and had the highest sequence similarity to
Paracoccus lutimaris
HDM-25T (97.4 %), followed by
Paracoccus isoporae
SW-3T (96.9 %),
Paracoccus caeni
MJ17T (96.9 %),
Paracoccus pacificus
F14T (96.8 %) and other species in the genus
Paracoccus
(95.3–96.5 %). The average nucleotide identity (ANI) and DNA–DNA hybridization (DDH) values between strain 12-3T and
P. lutimaris
HDM-25T were 76.1 and 17.0 %, respectively. ANI and DDH values between strain 12-3T and
P. isoporae
SW-3T were 78.9 and 18.2 %, respectively. The principal fatty acid of strain 12-3T was summed feature 8 (C18 : 1
ω6c/ω7c) and C18 : 0. The respiratory quinone of strain 12-3T was Q10. The polar lipids included phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and an unidentified glycolipid. The G+C content of the chromosomal DNA was 63.9 mol%. The combination of the results of the phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses, and its low ANI and DDH values indicate that strain 12-3T represents a novel species of the genus
Paracoccus
, for which the name Paracoccus xiamenensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 12-3T (=MCCC 1A16381T=KCTC 72687T).
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