Sphingorhabdus flavimaris (Yoon & Oh, 2005)

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 Sphingorhabdus flavimaris M41

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, nonpigmented, and rod­shaped. Colonies are rhizoid, convex and white colored after 2 days of incubation on MA medium at 25°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and esculin hydrolysis but negative for Indole production, urea, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase and β ­galactosidase. Positive for assimilation for D­glucose and negative for capric acid, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, L­arabinose, D­mannose, D­mannitol, D­maltose, Dmaltose, potassium gluconate, trisodium citrate, adipic acid and phenyl acetic acid. Strain M41 (= NIBRBA 0000114971) has been isolated from a tidal flat sample, Taean, Korea.