Rheinheimera tilapiae HME

Jung, Yong-Taek, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi Nam, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Yoon, Jung-Hoon, 2016, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species in South Korea belonging to the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 188-200 : 198

Description of Rheinheimera tilapiae HME 9414

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are raised, round, entire, and yellow colored after 2 days on R2A at 30℃. Positive for esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β-galactosidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, and urease in API 20NE. D-Mannose is utilized. Dose not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain HME9414 (= NIBRBA0000114409) has been isolated from a water sample, Yongin, Korea.