Curvibacter fontanus IMCC

Joung, Yochan, Park, Miri, Jang, Hye-Jin & Cho, Ilsuk Jung and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report of 22 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, isolated from the North Han River basin in 2017, Journal of Species Research 7 (3), pp. 193-201 : 199

Description of Curvibacter fontanus IMCC 34728

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, and convex after incubation for 3 days on R2A at 25℃. Positive for arginine dihydrolase and urease, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and β-galactosidase in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain IMCC34728 (= NNIBRBA154) was isolated from a wetland water sample, the North Han Riv- er basin, Korea.