Aurantimonas litoralis IMCC

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 150

Description of Aurantimonas litoralis IMCC 12390

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented and short­rod. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth and yellow colored after 3 days on MA at 15°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and urease in API 20NE, but negative for esculin hydrolysis, β ­galactosidase, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, indole production, and gelatinase. Does not utilize D­Mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, and capric acid. D­glucose, D­mannose, L­arabinose, adipic acid and malic acid are utilized. Strain IMCC12390 ( = NIBRBA0000114863) has been isolated from a sea water sample, Wando, Korea.