Empedobacter brevis HMF

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Yi, Hana, Kim, Wonyong, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi Nam, Kim, Seung Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Joh, Che Ok Jeon and Kiseong, 2021, A report of 43 unrecorded bacterial species within the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes isolated from various sources from Korea in 2019, Journal of Species Research 10 (2), pp. 117-133 : 126

Description of Empedobacter brevis HMF 6096

Gram-stain-negative, facultative anaerobic, non-flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium (0.4-0.6 μm wide, 0.8-1.0 μm long). Colonies grown R2 A agar are pale yellow, cicular, convex, and smooth. Oxidase activity is positive. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for indole production; hydrolysis of aesculine and gelatin; and assimilation of N -acetyl-glucosamine, but negative for nitrate reduction; glucose fermentation; activity of arginine dihydrolase, urease, and β -galactosidase; and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF6096 (= NIBRBAC000503110) was isolated from a seawater sample collected from Jeju, Republic of Korea (33°29 ʹ 50.0 ʺ N, 126°27 ʹ 06.1 ʺ E).