Arsenicicoccus bolidensis WM

Kim, Mi-Sun, Lee, Ji-Hee, Kang, Joo-Won, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Seong, Chi-Nam, 2016, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the phylum Actinobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (2), pp. 223-234 : 229

Description of Arsenicicoccus bolidensis WM 79

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, flagellated, non-pig- mented and coccoid. Colonies are opaque, round, smooth, umbonate and yellow-colored after 3 days on R2A at 25°C. Positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis and gelatinase in API 20NE, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and β -galactosidase. Does not utilize D-glucose, Dmannose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, malic acid and phenylacetic acid, but utilize D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine and D-maltose. Strain WM79 (= NIBRBA0000114441) has been isolat- ed from a freshwater sample, Woopo wetland, Gyeongnam Province, Korea.