Sphingomonas mucosissima SDN

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 148

Description of Sphingomonas mucosissima SDN 0101

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, nonpigmented, and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular and yellow colored after 3 days on NA at 25°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β ­galactosidase in API 20NE but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase and glucose fermentation. D­Glucose, D­mannose, D­maltose, D­mannitol and trisodium citrate are utilized. Does not utilize L­arabinose N ­acetyl­glucosamine, citrate, malic acid, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain SDN0101 (= NIBRBA0000114952) has been isolated from a fresh water sample, Taean, Korea.