Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus Wang, Yun and Cao, Lan-Lan and Tang, Shu-Kun and Lou, Kai and Mao, Pei-Hong and Jin, Xiang and Jiang, Cheng-Lin and Xu, Li-Hua and Li, Wen-Jun,, 59, 2875-2879 (2009), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009670-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-positive, aerobic, motile, coccoid, orange-pigmented bacterium, designated strain YIM 91094T, was isolated from a salt lake sample collected from Barkol Lake in Xinjiang Province, north-west China. The strain was able to grow at pH 6.0–8.0 (optimal growth at pH 7.0), at 10–37 °C (optimal growth at 28 °C) and in the presence of 0–25 % (w/v) NaCl [optimal growth in the presence of 10–15 % (w/v) NaCl]. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain YIM 91094T was affiliated with the genus Marinococcus and exhibited levels of sequence similarity of 99.2 % to Marinococcus halotolerans YIM 70157T and 99.7 % to Marinococcus halophilus DSM 20408T. However, it showed moderately low levels of DNA–DNA relatedness with the above type strains (56.0 and 57.5 %, respectively). The peptidoglycan type of strain YIM 91094T was A1γ, with meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. MK-7 was the predominant menaquinone and anteiso-C15 : 0 (49.9 % of the total) and anteiso-C17 : 0 (29.6 %) were the major cellular fatty acids. The DNA G+C content was 48.7 mol%. Strain YIM 91094T possessed chemotaxonomic markers that were consistent with its classification in the genus Marinococcus. On the basis of the data presented, strain YIM 91094T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Marinococcus, for which the name Marinococcus luteus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM 91094T (=KCTC 13214T=CCTCC AA 208014T). An emended description of the genus Marinococcus is provided., language=, type=