Zobellia laminariae, Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Marc Vancanneyt, Ilse Cleenwerck, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Valery V. Mikhailov & Jean Swings, 2004

Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Marc Vancanneyt, Ilse Cleenwerck, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Valery V. Mikhailov & Jean Swings, 2004, Zobellia amurskyensis sp. nov., Zobellia laminariae sp. nov. and Zobellia russellii sp. nov., novel marine bacteria of the family Flavobacteriaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54, pp. 1643-1648 : 1647

Description of Zobellia laminariae sp. nov.

Zobellia laminariae (la.mi.na9ri.ae. N.L. gen. n. laminariae of Laminaria , the generic name of the brown alga Laminaria japonica, from which the bacteria were isolated).

Cells range from 0·4 to 0·5 µm in width and from 1·2 to 1·4 µm in length. On marine agar, colonies are 2–4 mm in diameter, circular, shiny with entire edges, pigmented dark red and sunken in the agar. Growth occurs at 4–30 °C, with the optimum at 21–23 °C, and at salt concentrations from 1·5 to 6 % NaCl, with an optimum at 2 %. Decomposes agar, gelatin and Tween 40. Does not hydrolyse casein, starch, alginate, DNA, Tween 20, Tween 80, cellulose (CM-cellulose and filter paper) or chitin. Forms acid from L-arabinose, D-cellobiose, D-glucose, L-fucose, D-maltose, D-raffinose, L-rhamnose, D-sucrose and mannitol, but not from D-galactose, D-lactose, D-melibiose, L-sorbose, DL-xylose, N -acetylglucosamine, citrate, adonitol, dulcitol, glycerol or inositol. Utilizes D-lactose and D-mannose, but not inositol, sorbitol, malonate or citrate. Nitrate is reduced. H2S, indole and acetoin (Voges–Proskauer reaction) are not produced. Susceptible to carbenicillin, lincomycin and oleandomycin, but resistant to ampicillin, benzylpenicillin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin, polymyxin B, streptomycin and tetracycline. The predominant fatty acids are 15: 0 (12·5 %), i15: 0 (16·8 %), i15: 0 3 -OH (6·1 %), i15: 1 (12·3 %) and i17: 0 3 -OH (22·4 %). The major lipoquinone is MK-6. The G+C content of the DNA is 36–37 mol%.

The type strain is KMM 3676T (= LMG 22070 T = CCUG 47083 T). Isolated from the brown alga Laminaria japonica.