Microlunatus spumicola BN

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 on 10 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from the Korean islands in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 54-59 : 57

Description of Microlunatus spumicola BN 9

The cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated and rod shaped. The colonies are circular, convex, entire and yellow colored after incubation for 14 days on R2 A agar at 15℃. Positive for arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrates reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation and gelatin hydrolysis in API 20NE. D- Glucose, N -acetyl-glucosamine and D- maltose are utilized as sole carbon sources; but L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are not. Strain BN9 (= HNIBRBA1272) was isolated from a lichen sample, Wan-do (34°23′17″N, 126°41′36″E), Jeollanam-do, Korea .