Zobellia russellii, Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Marc Vancanneyt, Ilse Cleenwerck, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Valery V. Mikhailov & Jean Swings, 2004

Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Marc Vancanneyt, Ilse Cleenwerck, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Valery V. Mikhailov & Jean Swings, 2004, Zobellia amurskyensis sp. nov., Zobellia laminariae sp. nov. and Zobellia russellii sp. nov., novel marine bacteria of the family Flavobacteriaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54, pp. 1643-1648 : 1647

Description of Zobellia russellii sp. nov.

Zobellia russellii (rus9sel.li.i. N.L. gen. n. russellii of H. L. Russell, the American scientist, for his contribution to the development of marine microbiology).

Cells range from 0·4–0·5 µm in width and from 1·2 to 1·4 µm in length. On marine agar, colonies are 2–4 mm in diameter, circular, shiny with entire edges, pigmented dark orange and sunken in the agar. Growth occurs at 4–38 °C, with the optimum at 25–28 °C, and at salt concentrations between 1 and 10 % NaCl, with the optimum at 2–3 %. Decomposes agar, gelatin, starch, alginate, DNA, Tween 20, Tween 40 and Tween 80. Does not hydrolyse casein, cellulose (CM-cellulose and filter paper) or chitin. Forms acid from L-arabinose, D-cellobiose, D-glucose, L-fucose, Dmaltose, L-rhamnose, D-sucrose, DL-xylose and mannitol, but not from D-galactose, D-lactose, D-melibiose, L-sorbose, D-raffinose, N -acetylglucosamine, citrate, adonitol, dulcitol, glycerol or inositol. Utilizes D-lactose and D-mannose, but not inositol, sorbitol, malonate or citrate. Nitrate is reduced. H2S, indole and acetoin (Voges–Proskauer reaction) are not produced. Susceptible to carbenicillin, lincomycin, oleandomycin and tetracycline, but resistant to ampicillin, benzylpenicillin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin, polymyxin B and streptomycin. The predominant fatty acids are 15: 0 (11·0 %), i15: 0 (20·1 %), i15: 0 3 -OH (5·9 %), i15: 1 (14·9 %) and i17: 0 3 -OH (19·7 %). The major lipoquinone is MK-6. The G+C content of the DNA is 38·6 mol%.

The type strain is KMM 3677T (= LMG 22071 T = CCUG 47084 T). Isolated from the green alga Acrosiphonia sonderi .