lutimaribacter litoralis lutimaribacter litoralis lutimaribacter litoralis is a gram-negative, aerobic, pleomorphic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of lutimaribacter which has been isolated from seawater from the coast of the goto islands in japan lutimaribacter litoralis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: lutimaribacter species: l. litoralis binomial name lutimaribacter litoralisiwaki et al. 2013 type strain jcm 17792, kctc 23660, strain ku5d5