Description of Haemophilus piscium UL 222

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, opaque, convex and beige colored after incubation for 3 days on TSA at 25℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase, but negative for arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N-acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, malic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain UL 222 (= NIBRBAC000498616) was isolated from a seawater sample, Ulleung Island, Korea.