Flavobacterium psychrolimnae HMF

Maeng, Soohyun, Baek, Chaeyun, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cha, Chang-Jun, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong, Kim, Wonyong, Seong, Chi Nam, Lee, Soon Dong & Yi, Jang-Cheon Cho and Hana, 2018, A report of 28 unrecorded bacterial species, phylum Bacteroidetes, in Korea, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 104-113 : 109

Description of Flavobacterium psychrolimnae HMF 4563

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex with entire margin and yellow colored after 3 days on R2A agar at 25°C. Positive for oxidase, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, or gelatin hydrolysis. Uses D-glucose, D-mannose, and D-maltose, but not L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, or phenyl acetic acid as a carbon source. Strain HMF4563 (= NIBRBA 000498440) was isolated from a wet land sample, Yongin-si, Korea.