Aliiroseovarius crassostreae HME

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 : 152

Description of Aliiroseovarius crassostreae HME 9615

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, flagellated, pigment­ ed and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and grey colored after 3 days on MA at 25°C. Negative for nitrate reduction, urease, gelatinase, esculin hydrolysis, β ­galactosidase, arginine dihydrolase, indole production and glucose fermentation in API 20NE. Does not assimilate D­glucose, D­mannose, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, L­arabinose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, malic acid, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain HME9615 (= NIBR BA0000114988) has been isolated from sea water, Wando, Korea.