Nautella italica

Jin, Hyun Mi, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek & Jeon, Che-Ok, 2016, A report of 42 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 5 (2), pp. 206-219 : 215

Description of Nautella italica G8

Cells are Gram-staining-negative and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, rasised, entire, convex, and pale yellow colored after 2 days on MA at 25°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase activities. Does not utilize potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, phenylacetic acid, trisodium citrate, and capric acid. Strain G8 (= NIBRBA0000114354) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Taean, Korea.