Sphingopyxis flava HMF

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Jeon, Che-Ok, Kim, Wonyong & Im, Myung Kyum Kim and Wan-Taek, 2019, Description of 42 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (4), pp. 351-364 : 363

Description of Sphingopyxis flava HMF 9218

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and yellow color after 3 days on MA at 30°C. In API 20NE, positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galacto- sidase, but negative for glucose fermentation, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase. Malic acid is utilized. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF9218 (= NIBRBAC000502523) has been isolated from beach sand, Pohang, Korea.