Flavimarina pacifica IMCC

Cho, Jang-Cheon, Seong, Chi Nam, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Bae, Jin-Woo, Yi, Hana, Lee, Soon Dong & Yoon, Myung Kyum Kim and Jung-Hoon, 2018, A report of 17 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea belonging to the phylum Bacteroidetes, Journal of Species Research 7 (3), pp. 231-239 : 237

Description of Flavimarina pacifica IMCC 34176

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated and rodshaped. Colonies are circular, entire, raised and yellowcolored after incubation for 3 days on “R11A” seawater agar at 25℃. In the API 20NE system, positive reaction for esculin hydrolysis and β-galactosidase activity, but negative reaction for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease activity, gelatin hydrolysis and utilization of D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC34176 (= VYWGBAC000000117) was isolated from a tidal flat at Jangbong island of Incheon, Korea.