Description of Microbulbifer mangrove IMCC 25642

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented and coccoid-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and yellow colored after incubation for 3 days on MA at 20℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and esculin hydrolysis in API 20NE. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N-acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC 25642 (= NIBRBAC000498541) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Mo Island, Korea.