Blastomonas natatoria

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 147

Description of Blastomonas natatoria FW-2

Cells are Gram­reaction­negative, flagellated, pigment­ ed and rod shaped. Colonies are grown on R2A agar plates for 2 days are yellow, circular, raised, entire, with regular margins, and 2­3.5 mm in diameter. Positive for gelatinase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, urease, esculin hydrolysis, glucose fermentation and β ­galactosidase indole production and arginine dihydrolase. Does not utilize D­glucose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, malic acid and phenyl acetic acid but utilizes L­arabinose, D­maltose, trisodium citrate and adipic acid. Strain FW­2 (= NIBRBA0000114840) has been isolated from activated sludge, Daejeon, Korea.