Fictibacillus nanhaiensis

Kim, Haneul, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Kiseong, 2016, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 166-178 : 175

Description of Fictibacillus nanhaiensis 2013 C17

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and straight rod-shaped. Colonies are flat, translucent, glistening and yellow colored after 2 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Oxidase- activity is negative. In the API 20NE strip, esculin hydrolysis, urease and gelatinase activities and assimilation of D-glucose, D-maltose, potassium gluconate and malic acid are positive, but nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and β -galactosidase activities and assimilation of L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are negative. Strain 2013 C17 (= NIBRBA0000114165) has been isolated from a freshwater sample, Andong, Korea.