Shewanella inventionis HMF

Weerawongwiwat, Veeraya, Kim, Myung Kyum, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Seong, Chi-Nam, Yi, Hana & Kim, Jung-Hoon Yoon and Wonyong, 2021, A report on 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 201-216 : 209

Description of Shewanella inventionis HMF 6915

The cells are gram-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. The colonies are pale pink in color, circular, convex, and smooth after incubation on MA at 30℃ for 3 days under aerobic conditions. It is positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, β-galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and utilization of glucose, arabinose, mannose, mannitol, N - acetyl-glucosamine, maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid, per the analysis using the API 20NE kit. Strain HMF6915 (= NIBRBAC000503116) was isolated from seawater in Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea.