Cloacibacterium normanense

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 : 173

Description of Cloacibacterium normanense 2013 C18

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are round, waxy and yellow colored after 2 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Oxidase- activity is positive. In the API 20NE strip, nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase and urease activities and assimilation of D-mannose are positive, but indole production, gelatinase and β -galactosidase activities and assimilation of D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are negative. Strain 2013 C18 (= NIBRBA0000114166) has been isolated from a fresh water sample, Andong, Korea.