Elizabethkingia anophelis

Lee, Do-Hoon, Jang, Ho-Jin, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Jang, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong & Cha, Chi-Nam Seong and Chang-Jun, 2018, A report of 22 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the phyla Bacteroidetes and Rhodothermaeota, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 123-134 : 130

Description of Elizabethkingia anophelis 142-9

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod­shaped (2.9 μm long, 0.6 μm wide). Colonies are circular, entire, raised and yellow­colored after 2 days of incubation on TSA at 25°C. Negative reactions are obtained for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis and gelatinase in API 20NE. Does not utilize L­ arabinose, D­ mannose, D­ mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain 142­9 (= NIBRBA 0000114764) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Juwang mountain, Cheongsong, Korea.