Flavicella marina SFD

Maeng, Soohyun, Baek, Chaeyun, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cha, Chang-Jun, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong, Kim, Wonyong, Seong, Chi Nam, Lee, Soon Dong & Yi, Jang-Cheon Cho and Hana, 2018, A report of 28 unrecorded bacterial species, phylum Bacteroidetes, in Korea, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 104-113 : 109

Description of Flavicella marina SFD 5

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are transparent, circular, smooth, flat, and yellow colored after 3 days on marine agar at 25°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase. Negative for oxidase, nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatin hydrolysis. Does not use D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, or phenyl-acetic acid as a carbon source. Strain SFD5 (= NIBRBA 000498468) was isolated from a gulfweed, Jeju Island, Korea.