Sphingomonas faeni WS

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 : 148

Description of Sphingomonas faeni WS 23

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented, and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, convex, smooth and orange colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A agar medium at 25°C. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urea and gelatinase but positive for esculin hydrolysis and β ­galactosidase. D­Glucose, L­arabinose, D­mannose, citric acid, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, malic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized. D­Mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenyl­acetic acid are not utilized. Strain WS23 (= NIBRBA0000115019) has been isolated from fresh water, Changnyeong, Korea.