Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens HME

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 : 147

Description of Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens HME 9618

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­spore­forming, flagellated, pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and orange colored after 3 days of incubation on Marine agar medium at 25°C. In API 20NE, positive esculin hydrolysis but negative for nitrate reduction, urea indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase and β ­galactosidase. Does not utilize D­glucose, L­arabinose, capric acid, and phenyl­acetic acid but D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyle­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized. Strain HME9618 (= NIBRBA0000114989) has been isolated from sea water, Gangneung, Korea.