Staphylococcus edaphicus

Park, Eun-Hee, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Seung-Bum & Cha, Wan-Taek Im and Chang-Jun, 2021, Report of 20 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the phylum Firmicutes during surveys in 2020, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 217-226 : 223

Description of Staphylococcus edaphicus I2-44

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and coccus-shaped. Colonies are round, entire, raised and pale yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on R2 A at 30℃. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis and gelatinase in API 20NE. Does not utilize L- arabinose, D- mannose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Weakly utilizes N -acetyl-glucosamine. Strain I 2-44 (= NIBRBAC000506147) was isolated from a wetland sample, Seoul, Republic of Korea (37°34′02.2″N, 127°08′59.1″E) .