Flavobacterium compostarboris WW

Kim, Haneul, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Kiseong, 2016, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 166-178 : 172

Description of Flavobacterium compostarboris WW 2

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are round, smooth, translucent and dark-yellow colored after 3 days on R2A at 25°C. Oxidase- activity is negative. In the API 20NE strip, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β -galactosidase activities and assimilation of D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N - acetyl-glucosamine and D-maltose are positive, but nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and urease activities and assimilation of D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are negative. Strain WW2 (= NIBRBA0000114435) has been isolated from a fresh water sample, Woopo wetland, Changnyeong, Korea.