Altererythrobacter xiamenensis MW

Kim, Kyung Hyun, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo & Jeon, Wan-Taek Im and Che Ok, 2017, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 129-140 : 134

Description of Altererythrobacter xiamenensis MW 26

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, entire and pale yellow-colored after 2 days of incubation at 30°C on MA. Positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activities. Capric acid is utilized. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase and urease activities. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain MW26 (= NIBRBAC 000497864) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Taean-gun, Korea.