Ruegeria mediterranea CAU 1702

Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Seo, Taegun & Yoon, Che-Ok Jeon and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 156 unrecorded bacterial species of Republic of Korea belonging to the phyla Acidobacteriota, Deinococcota, Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 374-414 : 403

Description of Ruegeria mediterranea CAU 1702

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, entire margin, opaque, and cream after incubation for 3 days on MA at 30° C. In the API 20NE system, positive for cytochrome oxidase, nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and gelatin hydrolysis; but negative for indole production, urease, arginine dihydrolase, and glucose fermentation. Mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, arabinose, malic acid, capric acid, glucose, D-maltose, adipic acid, potassium gluconate, mannitol, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain CAU 1702 (= NIBRBAC000509682) was isolated from a seawater sample at Busan, Republic of Korea .