Rhodococcus rhodochrous (Zopf, 1891) Tsukamura, 1974

Kim, Hyangmi & Han, Ji-Hye, 2021, Twelve previously unrecorded bacterial species, isolated from the Nakdong River, South Korea, Journal of Species Research 10 (2), pp. 134-141 : 137

Description of Rhodococcus rhodochrous L-23

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated, rodshaped, and aerobic. Colonies are round, convex, and cream orange colored after 3 days on LB at 25℃. Negative for oxidase. Does not hydrolyze esculin and gelatin. Reduces nitrate to nitrite. Cannot produce acid from glucose. Does not produce indole. Does not possesses activity of arginine dihydrolase, β -galactosidase, and urease. Assimilates glucose (weakly), mannose (weakly), mannitol (weakly), adipic acid, malic acid, and trisodium citrate, but not arabinose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain L-23 (= NNIBR2020641BA459) was isolated from sediment of the Nakdong River. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence is MT871977.