Balneola vulgaris IMCC

Lee, Do-Hoon, Jang, Ho-Jin, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Jang, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong & Cha, Chi-Nam Seong and Chang-Jun, 2018, A report of 22 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the phyla Bacteroidetes and Rhodothermaeota, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 123-134 : 124

Description of Balneola vulgaris IMCC 12361

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod­shaped (1.6 μm long, 0.4 μm wide). Colonies are circular, convex, opaque and red­colored after 3 days of incubation on MA at 15°C. Negative reactions are obtained for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis and gelatinase in API 20NE. Does not utilize L­ arabinose, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, capric acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC12361 (= NIBRBA 0000114858) was isolated from a sea water sample, East sea, Sokcho, Korea.