Description of Vibrio ruber HMF 8004

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 30℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol and D-maltose are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not N-acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF8004 (= NIBRBAC000498457) was isolated from a saltern sample, Sinan, Korea.