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 : 148

Description of Blastomonas natatoria 01SU7-P

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex and yellow colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. In API 20NE, only positive D­glucose utilization while negative for nitrate reduction glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, indole production, β ­galactosidase and assimilation of L­arabinose, D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain 01SU7­P (= NIBRBA00001 15021) has been isolated from a fresh water sample, Changnyeong, Korea.