“…Species assigned to the genus Marinomonas are rod-shaped and motile by polar or peritrichous flagella, have DNA G+C contents in the range 46.9-48.0 mol% and the ability to metabolize mhydroxybenzoate, p-hydroxybenzoate and quinate and to utilize acetate. The recognized species of the genus Marinomonas were M. aquimarina, M. communis, M. dokdonensis, M. mediterranea, M. ostreistagni, M. polaris, M. pontica, M. primoryensis, M. ushuaiensis and M. vaga (Baumann et al, 1972;Gupta et al, 2006;Ivanova et al, 2005;Lau et al, 2006;Macian et al, 2005;Prabagaran et al, 2005;Romanenko et al, 2003;Solano & Sanchez-Amat, 1999;Van Landschoot & De Ley, 1983;Yoon et al, 2005). A Marinomonas-like, Gramnegative, rod-shaped bacterial strain, J63 T , was isolated recently from black sand from Soesoggak, Jeju island, Korea, by using the dilution-plating technique.…”