Rheinheimera tangshanensis Duck L

Lim, Yeonjung, Joung, Yochan, Nam, Gi Gyun, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Kim, Seung-Bum, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek & Cho, Jang-Cheon, 2016, A report on 33 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2014, belonging to the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (2), pp. 241-253 : 249

Description of Rheinheimera tangshanensis Duck L 2

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are wrinkled and convex, and wavy white colored after 2 days of incubation on R2 A at 25° C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β -galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and β -galactosidase. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain Duck L 2 (= NIBRBA0000114823) was isolated from an oil-contaminated lake sample, Daejeon, Korea .