Description of Corynebacterium marinum Cip 10

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, erose and yellow colored after 2 days on MA at 30°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and urease in API 20NE, but negative for arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, gelatinase, glucose fermentation and indole production. Does not utilize N -acetyl-glucosamine, adipic acid, L-arabinose, capric acid, D-glucose, D-maltose, D-mannitol, D-mannose, phenylacetic acid, potassium gluconate and trisodium citrate, but utilize malic acid. Strain Cip10 (= NIBRBAC000498060) has been isolated from a tidal flat, Incheon, Korea.