Description of Salinivibrio costicola subsp. vallismortis HMF 8002

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented and curved-rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and red colored after incubation for 2 days on MA at 37℃. Positive for glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and gelatin hydrolysis, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, urease, esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. D-Glucose, D-mannose, N-acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate and malic acid are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not L-arabinose, D-mannitol, D-maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF8002 (= NIBRBAC000498456) was isolated from a saltern sample, Sinan, Korea.