lutimaribacter marinistellae lutimaribacter marinistellae lutimaribacter marinistellae is a gram-negative, non-spore-forming and motile bacterium from the genus of lutimaribacter which has been isolated from a starfish from sanya in china. lutimaribacter marinistellae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: lutimaribacter species: l. marinistellae binomial name lutimaribacter marinistellaezhang et al. 2016 type strain jcm 17792, kctc 23660, strain ku5d5