Arcicella aurantiaca WS

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 : 126

Description of Arcicella aurantiaca WS 16

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod­shaped (2.2 μm long, 0.4 μm wide). Colonies are round, circular, convex and orange­colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. Does not utilize D­ glucose, L­ arabinose, D­ mannose, D­ mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­ maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain WS16 (= NIBRBA0000115013) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Upo wetland, Changnyeong, Korea.