Flavobacterium columnare (Bernardet & Grimont, 1989) Bernardet et al., 1996

Cho, Sang Hyun, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo & Jeon, Wan-Taek Im and Che Ok, 2017, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the phylum Bacteroidetes in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 119-128 : 126

Description of Flavobacterium columnare 2015-2

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and yellow-colored after 2 days of incubation at 25°C on R2A agar. Positive for nitrate reduction and gelatinase activity. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, and arginine dihydrolase, β -galactosidase, and urease activities. Does not utilize D-glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, L-arabinose, capric acid, and adipic acid. Strain 2015-2 (= NIBRBAC000498054) was isolated from a fresh water sample, Jeonju, Korea.