A novel species of the genus Limimaricola , designated ASW11-118T, was isolated from an intertidal sand sample of the Yellow Sea, PR China. Growth of strain ASW11-118T occurred at 10–40 °C (optimum, 28 °C), pH 5.5–8.5 (optimum, pH 7.5) and with 0.5–8.0 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 1.5%). Strain ASW11-118T has the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Limimaricola cinnabarinus LL-001T (98.8%) and 98.6 % to Limimaricola hongkongensis DSM 17492T. Phylogenetic analysis based on genomic sequences indicated that strain ASW11-118T belongs to the genus Limimaricola . The genome size of strain ASW11-118T was 3.8 Mb and DNA G+C content was 67.8 mol%. The average nucleotide identity and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain ASW11-118T and other members of the genus Limimaricola were below 86.6 and 31.3 %, respectively. The predominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10. The predominant cellular fatty acid was C18 : 1  ω7c. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine and one unknown aminolipid. On the basis of the data presented, strain ASW11-118T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Limimaricola , for which the name Limimaricola litoreus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is ASW11-118T (=MCCC 1K05581T=KCTC 82494T).

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