marinobacter koreensis marinobacter koreensis marinobacter koreensis is a gram-negative, straight-rod-shaped, aerobic and moderately halophilic bacterium from the genus of marinobacter which has been isolated from sea sand from pohang in korea. marinobacter koreensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: alteromonadaceae genus: marinobacter species: m. koreensiskim et al. 2006 binomial name marinobacter koreensis type strain dd-m3, dsm 17924, kacc 11513