Thalassospira lucentensis IMCC

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 169

Description of Thalassospira lucentensis IMCC 34233

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, convex, and cream beige-colored after three days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A agar using seawater. Positive for esculin hydrolysis. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and potassium gluconate. Does not utilize D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC34233 (= VYWGBAC000000125) was isolated from a sand sample, Wando, Korea.