Algoriphagus aquatilis WS

Lee, Do-Hoon, Jang, Ho-Jin, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Jang, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong & Cha, Chi-Nam Seong and Chang-Jun, 2018, A report of 22 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the phyla Bacteroidetes and Rhodothermaeota, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 123-134 : 124

Description of Algoriphagus aquatilis WS 57

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated and rod­shaped (0.7 μm long, 0.2 μm wide). Colonies are round, circular, convex and red­pink­colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatinase in API 20NE. Does not utilize D­ glucose, L­ arabinose, D­ mannose, D­ mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­ maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain WS57 (= NIBRBA0000115012) was isolated from a swamp sample, Upo wetland, Changnyeong, Korea.