Rivicola pingtungensis IMCC

Joung, Yochan, Jang, Hye-Jin, Kim, Myeong Woon, Hwang, Juchan & Cho, Jaeho Song and Jang-Cheon, 2019, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, isolated from urban streams of the Han River watershed in 2018, Journal of Species Research 8 (3), pp. 249-258 : 255

Description of Rivicola pingtungensis IMCC 34916

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and entire after incubation for 3 days on R2A at 20℃. Positive for oxidase, nitrate reduction and β-galactosidase, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, gelatin hydrolysis, urease, and esculin hydrolysis in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain IMCC34916 (= NNIBR2018143BA569) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Jungnang Stream, Dobong, Seoul, Korea.