Porphyrobacter sanguineus

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 146

Description of Porphyrobacter sanguineus 63DPR2

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, diffusible­pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are punctiform, smooth, and red orange colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. In API 20NE, positive for esculin hydrolysis but negative for nitrate production, glucose fermentation, urease, indole β ­galactosidase production, arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase. Does not utilize D­glucose, L­arabinose, D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain 63DPR2 (= NIBRBA 0000114799) has been isolated from fresh water sample, Daejeon, Korea.