Sphingorhabdus pacifica, Romanenko et al., 2015

Joung, Yochan, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Kim, Wonyong & Cho, Soon Dong Lee and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2016, belonging to the orders Rhizobiales and Sphingomonadales in the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 7 (1), pp. 13-23 : 22

Description of Sphingorhabdus pacifica CAU 1064

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and short rod-shaped. Colonies are small, circular, sticky, convex, and yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on MA (pH 6.0) at 30°C. Positive for urease, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and cytochrome cytochrome oxidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, and gelatinase in the API 20NE test. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain CAU 1064 (= NIBRBAC000498499) was isolated from soil, Jeju-do, Korea.