Marinobacter pelagius JW

Jung, Yong-Taek, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi Nam, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Yoon, Jung-Hoon, 2016, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species in South Korea belonging to the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 188-200 : 197

Description of Marinobacter pelagius JW 17

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, entire, and yellow colored after 2 days on MA at 25℃. Positive for glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, and β-galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, urease, and gelatin hydrolysis. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize D-mannose, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain JW17 (= NIBRBA0000114374) has been isolated from a tidal flat sample, Taean, Korea.