Aquimarina aggregata KYW2188

Kim, Ju-Young, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Won-Yong, Im, Wan-Taek, Cha, Chang-Jun, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jeon, Che-Ok & Kim, Taegun Seo and Myung Kyum, 2022, A report of 24 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the Phyla Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes isolated in 2020, Journal of Species Research 11 (3), pp. 133-142 : 136

Description of Aquimarina aggregata KYW2188

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on MA at 25℃. In API 20NE test, positive for esculin hydrolysis; but negative for potassium gluconate, reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrite (NO 2 -), reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrogen (N 2), indole production on tryptophan, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatin hydrolysis. D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-D- glucosamine, D- maltose, adipic acid, D- mannitol, capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid were not utilized. Strain KYW2188 (= NIBRBAC000506233) was isolated from a soil sample from Gwangyang Bay, Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do, Korea.