Kurthia zopfii

Lee, So-Yeon, Han, Jeong Eun & Bae, Pil Soo Kim and Jin-Woo, 2020, A report of 18 unrecorded prokaryotic species isolated from the feces of an Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana), and from the intestinal tracts of a cobitid fish (Kichulchoia multifasciata) and a Korean splendid dace (Coreoleuciscus splendidus), Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 325-338 : 334-335

Description of Kurthia zopfii H13R26

Cells are Gram-stain positive, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, entire, and cream colored after 2 days of incubation on TSA at 10℃. Positive for sodium lactate, L- glutamic acid, guanidine HCl, tetrazolium blue, L- lactic acid, nalidixic acid, lithium chloride, potassium tellurite, acetoacetic acid, acetic acid, formic acid, aztreonam, and sodium butyrate in Biolog GEN III; but negative for dextrin, D- maltose, D- trehalose, D- cellobiose, gentiobiose, sucrose, D- turanose, stachyose, D- raffinose, α -D- lactose, D- melibiose, β -methyl-D- glucoside, D- salicin, N -acetyl-D- glucosamine, N -acetyl- β -D- mannosamine, N -acetyl-D- galactosamine, N -acetylneuraminic acid, α -D- glucose, D- mannose, D- fructose, D- galactose, 3-methyl glucose, D- fucose, L- fucose, L- rhamnose, inosine, D- sorbitol, D- mannitol, D- arabitol, myo-inositol, glycerol, D- glucose, D- fructose-6-PO4, D- aspartic acid, D- serine, troleandomycin, gelatin, glycyl-L- proline, L- alanine, L- arginine, L- aspartic acid, L- histidine, L- pyroglutamic acid, L- serine, lincomycin, pectin, D- galacturonic acid, L- galactonic acid lactone, D- gluconic acid, D- glucuronic acid, glucuronamide, mucin acid, quinic acid, D- saccharic acid, vancomycin, p-hydroxy-phenylacetic acid, methyl pyruvate, D- lactic acid, citric acid, α -keto-glutaric acid, D- malic acid, L- malic acid, bromo-succinic acid, Tween 40, γ -amino-butyric acid, β - hydroxy-D, L- butyric acid, α -hydroxy-butyric acid, α -keto-butyric acid, propionic acid, pH 5, 4% NaCl, 8% NaCl, fusidic acid, rifamycin SV, minocycline, niaproof 4, tetrazolium violet, and sodium bromate.

Strain H13R26 (= NIBRBAC000502708) was isolated from the feces of a stork ( Ciconia boyciana ) from Seoul Grand Park Zoo, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The DNA G + C content of the type strain is 36.9 mol%.