Zobellia amurskyensis, 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 amurskyensis sp. nov.

Zobellia amurskyensis (a.mur.sky.en9sis. N.L. fem. adj. amurskyensis of Amursky Bay, in which the type strain was 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 orange and sunken in the agar. Growth occurs at 4–32 °C, with the optimum at 23–25 °C, and at 1–6 % NaCl, with the optimum at 2 % NaCl. Decomposes agar, gelatin, starch, alginate, DNA, Tween 20 and Tween 80. Does not hydrolyse casein, cellulose (CM-cellulose and filter paper), chitin or Tween 40. Forms acid from D-glucose, L-fucose, D-maltose, L-rhamnose and D-sucrose, but not from L-arabinose, Dcellobiose, D-galactose, D-lactose, D-melibiose, L-sorbose, Lraffinose, DL-xylose, N -acetylglucosamine, citrate, adonitol, dulcitol, glycerol, inositol or mannitol. Utilizes L-arabinose, D-lactose, D-mannose and mannitol, but not inositol, sorbitol, malonate or citrate. Nitrate is reduced. H2S, indole and acetoin (Voges–Proskauer reaction) are not produced. Susceptible to carbenicillin, lincomycin, oleandomycin and streptomycin, but resistant to ampicillin, benzylpenicillin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin, polymyxin B and tetracycline. The predominant fatty acids are 15: 0 (14·4 %), i15: 0 (22·5 %), i15: 0 3 -OH (4·6 %), i15: 1 (10·4 %) and i17: 0 3 -OH (15·1 %). The major lipoquinone is MK-6. The G+C content of the DNA is 37·1 mol%.

The type strain is KMM 3526T (= LMG 22069 T = CCUG 47080 T). Isolated from sea water .