Pararhodobacter oceanensis sp. nov., isolated from marine intertidal sediment and emended description of the genus Pararhodobacter Wang, Xiao-Lin and Zhao, Ya-Nan and Wang, Kan and Du, Zong-Jun,, 69, 866-870 (2019), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003255, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile and facultatively anaerobic bacterium, designated AM505T, was isolated from Shuangdao Bay in Weihai, China. Cells of strain AM505T were 0.4–0.8 µm wide, 1.3–3.3 µm long, catalase-positive and oxidase-positive. Strain AM505T was tolerant to moderate salt conditions. Growth occurred at 4–40 °C (optimum, 28–33 °C), pH 6.5–9.5 (pH 7.5–8.0) and with 0.5–9.0 % NaCl (w/v; 2.0–4.0 %). A phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene indicated that strain AM505T was a member of the genus Pararhodobacter within the family Rhodobacteraceae. The most closely related neighbour was Pararhodobacter aggregans DSM 18938T (97.6 %). The average nucleotide identity value between AM505T and P. aggregans DSM 18938T was 75.3 %. The major respiratory quinone of strain AM505T was ubiquinone-10 and the predominant cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were summed feature 8 (consisting of C18 : 1 ω7c and/or C18 : 1 ω6c), 11-methyl C18 : 1 ω7c and C18 : 0. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine and an unidentified aminolipid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 63.0 mol%. Based on our polyphasic taxonomic study, strain AM505T should be a novel species in the genus Pararhodobacter , for which the name Pararhodobacter oceanensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AM505T (=KCTC 62407T=MCCC 1H00289T)., language=, type=