Sphingomonas jaspsi HMF

Kim, Kyung Hyun, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo & Jeon, Wan-Taek Im and Che Ok, 2017, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 129-140 : 138

Description of Sphingomonas jaspsi HMF 4018

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, and yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation at 30°C on R2A agar. Positive for nitrate reduction and esculin hydrolysis. D-Glucose, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are utilized. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activities. Does not utilize L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and capric acid. Strain HMF4018 (= NIBRBAC 000497909) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Gyeongju, Korea.