Niabella thaonhiensis HMF2508

Cho, Sang Hyun, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo & Jeon, Wan-Taek Im and Che Ok, 2017, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the phylum Bacteroidetes in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 119-128 : 127

Description of Niabella thaonhiensis HMF2508

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, and yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation at 30°C on R2A agar. Positive esculin hydrolysis and arginine dihydrolase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activities. Does not utilize potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, D-mannitol, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid, but utilizes D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and D-maltose. Strain HMF2508 (= NIBR BAC000497896) was isolated from a soil sample, Yongin, Korea.