Laribacter hongkongensis IMCC

Joung, Yochan, Jang, Hye-Jin, Kim, Myeong Woon, Hwang, Juchan & Cho, Jaeho Song and Jang-Cheon, 2019, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, isolated from urban streams of the Han River watershed in 2018, Journal of Species Research 8 (3), pp. 249-258 : 254

Description of Laribacter hongkongensis IMCC 34909

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and entire after incubation for 3 days on R2A at 20℃. Positive for arginine dihydrolase and esculin hydrolysis, but negative for oxidase, nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, gelatin hydrolysis, urease, and β-galactosidase in API 20NE. Capric acid, adipic acid, and malic acid are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC34909 (= NNIBR2018143BA562) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Gulpo Stream, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.