Celeribacter halophilus

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 27 unrecorded bacterial species within the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from various sources of Korea in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 33-44 : 41

Description of Celeribacter halophilus 15MA -21

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated and short rod shaped. Colonies grown on marine agar are light white, circular and convex. Oxidase activity is positive. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, urease, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of D- glucose, D- mannitol, capric acid, adipic acid and trisodium citrate; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, gelatinase, and assimilation of L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, malate and phenylacetic acid. Strain 15MA-21 (= NI- BRBAC000508955 ) was isolated from a seaweed sample collected from Goseong , Republic of Korea (38°30 ʹ 13.1 ʺ N 128°25 ʹ 37.6 ʺ E) .