Novosphingobium capsulatum

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 : 149

Description of Novosphingobium capsulatum LR-3

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, diffusible pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are irregular, smooth, white margin after 3 days of incubation on TSA at 30° C. In API 20NE, positive for esculin hydrolysis but negative for nitrate reduction, arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, glucose fermentation, urea, β ­galactosidase and indole production. Utilizes D­glucose, D­mannose, D­maltose and D­mannitol but malic acid, trisodium citrate, N ­acetyl­glucosamine L­arabinose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain LR­3 (= NIBRBA 0000114805 ) has been isolated from a fresh water pond, Daejeon, Korea .