A Gram-stain-negative bacterial strain, designated as E165T, was isolated from a tidal flat sediment of the East China Sea. Strain E165T grew optimally at pH 6, at 32 °C and with 1–2 % (w/v) NaCl. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity results revealed that strain E165T was most closely related to
Marinomonas rhizomae
IVIA-Po-145T,
Marinomonas polaris
CK13T,
Marinomonas foliarum
IVIA-Po-155T,
Marinomonas hwangdonensis
HDW-15T,
Marinomonas pontica
46-16T,
Marinomonas mangrovi
B20-1T and
Marinomonas shanghaiensis
DSL-35T with values of 97.0–98.5 %. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values between strain E165T and the reference strains were 21.9–34.3 % and 77.6–87.3 %, respectively. The DNA G+C content of the isolate was 42.9 mol%. Strain E165T contained Q-8 as the sole ubiquinone and C16 : 0, summed feature 8 (C18 : 1
ω7c and/or C18 : 1
ω6c) and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1
ω7c and/or C16 : 1
ω6c) as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids of strain E165T were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, aminolipid and aminophospholipid. On the basis of phenotypic characteristics, phylogenetic analysis and DNA–DNA relatedness, a novel species, Marinomonas lutimaris sp. nov., is proposed with E165T (=MCCC 1K06241T=KCTC 82809T) as the type strain.