Vibrio inhibens is a marine bacterium species of the genus Vibrio (Vibrionaceae, Gammaproteobacteria). The species has been shown to be closely related to members of the genus Vibrio in the so-called Harveyi clade. The clade includes at least 11 closely related species with similar physiological and biochemical properties. Due to these similarities, species of the Harveyi clade are difficult to characterize taxonomically. Previously phenotypic and genotypic properties of the V. inhibens type strain were compared with six species of the Harveyi clade, resulting in the possibility that V. inhibens could be a synonym of a previously described species. In this study, the taxonomic status of V. inhibens was analyzed using genomic approaches. The whole-genome sequence of the type strain of V. inhibens, CECT 7692 T , was obtained and analyzed. Calculations of average nucleotide identity with the BLAST algorithm (ANIb) showed that CECT 7692 T has an ANIb of 97.5 % or higher to five strains of Vibrio. jasicida, including the type strain, but an ANIb lower than 93.5 % to other members of the Harveyi clade Vibrio. Phylogenetic analysis based on nucleotide sequences of 133 protein-coding genes showed a close evolutionary relationship of CECT 7692 T to V. jasicida. Based on these results, Vibrio inhibens is proposed to be a later heterotypic synonym of V. jasicida.Strain CECT 7692 T was isolated from feces of wild longsnouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) (Balcazar et al., 2012). Based on a phylogenetic analysis of sequences of five genes, as well as a chemophenotypic analysis the strain was taxonomically classified as representing a novel species of the genus Vibrio (family Vibrionaceae, Gammaproteobacteria), Vibrio inhibens (Balcazar et al., 2012). So far, the species type strain (CECT 7692 T =DSM 23440 T =BFLP-10 T ) is the only strain of V. inhibens described in the literature. The type strain of V. inhibens, CECT 7692 T , was obtained from the Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT). Genomic DNA of CECT 7692 T was isolated using a DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit (Qiagen). The whole-genome sequence was generated using an Illumina MiSeq platform and a Nextera XT DNA Sample Prep kit (Illumina). Pairedend sequencing resulted in 2 367 933 reads (after quality trimming), which were assembled using Platanus assembler version 1.2.1 with the option for haploid genome (Katijani et al., 2014) into 237 scaffolds of over 300 bp in length, with approximately 132-fold coverage. The draft genome was 5 945 135 bp in length, with a DNA G+C content of 43.82 %. The CECT 7692 T genome sequence was submitted Abbreviations: MLSA, multi-locus sequence analysis; ANI, average nucleotide identity; GGDC, genome-to-genome distance comparison; ANIb, ANI calculated with the blast algorithm; ANIm, ANI calculated with the MUMmer algorithm; orthoANI, orthology ANI .V. inhibens CECT 7692 T 16S rRNA sequence obtained in this study has GenBank accession number KU360274. CECT 7692 T genome sequence has DDBJ accession numbers DF977004 to DF977445.Six supple...