Aerobic bacterium.
Isolated from sediment sample collected from Wanshan marine ranching in the Pearl River Estuary (21 deg 56 min 57 sec N 113 deg 38 min 26 sec E).
Paenimyroides aestuarii gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from sediment in the Pearl River Estuary and reclassification of five Flavobacterium and four Myroides species.