Sphingomonas echinoides WM

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 echinoides WM 24

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, convex, smooth and yellow colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β ­galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatinase. D­Glucose, L­arabinose, D­mannose, N ­acetyl­glucosamine and D­maltose are utilized. Does not utilize D­mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain WM24 (= NIBRBA0000115018) has been isolated from fresh water sample, Changnyeong, Korea.