Sphingomonas astaxanthinifaciens HME

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 106

Description of Sphingomonas astaxanthinifaciens HME 8658

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented, and short rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and red colored after 2 days on R2A at 37°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, urease, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase. Does not utilize capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate and adipic acid. Strain HME8658 (= NIBRBA0000114087) has been isolated from a Water sample, Lake Juam, Korea.