Nioella ostreopsis SCSW

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 27 unrecorded bacterial species within the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from various sources of Korea in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 33-44 : 41

Description of Nioella ostreopsis SCSW -6

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellat- ed and rod shaped. Colonies grown on marine agar are yellowish white, circular, convex and glistening. Oxidase activity is negative. In API 20NE test, cells are positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of potassium gluconate and adipic acid; but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid, malate, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain SCSW-6 (= NIBRBAC000508908) was isolated from a seawater sample collected from Sokcho, Republic of Korea (38°13 ʹ 42 ʺ N 128°35 ʹ 13 ʺ E) .