Nesiotobacter exalbescens HMF

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 171

Description of Nesiotobacter exalbescens HMF 8042

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and white-colored after three days of incubation at 30℃ on MA. Positive for indole production, glucose fermentation, and urease activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, and arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, D- mannose, N - acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, and phenylacetic acid. Does not utilize L- arabinose, D- mannitol, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, and trisodium citrate. Strain HMF8042 (= VYWGBAC000000189) was isolated from a water sample from a salt pond, Shinan, Korea.