Rheinheimera arenilitoris MIH

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 : 248

Description of Rheinheimera arenilitoris MIH 20

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised and entire, and brown colored after 2 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Positive for nitrate reduction in API 20 NE, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β -galactosidase. D-Glucose, D-mannitol and potassium gluconate are utilized. Does not utilize Larabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain MIH20 (= NIBRBA0000114775) was isolated from a seawater sample, Marado, Korea.