Novosphingobium indicum KYW

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 106

Description of Novosphingobium indicum KYW 772

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, flagellated, pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are opaque, round, smooth, convex, and light yellow colored after 3 days on MA at 25°C. Negative for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, indole production, urease and gelatinase in API 20NE. D-maltose is utilized. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, capric acid and adipic acid. Strain KYW772 (= NIBRBA0000114110) has been isolated from seawater, Gwangyang-si, Korea.