Croceicoccus pelagius

Jeon, Che-Ok, Kim, Wonyong, Bae, Jin-Woo, Seong, Chi-Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Yoon, Taegun Seo and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 36 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the phyla Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, Deinococcota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in Republic of Korea, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 415-429 : 427

Description of Croceicoccus pelagius J2

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and coccoid shaped. Colonies are opaque, round, smooth, convex, and light yellow colored after incubation for 3 days on MA at 25℃. In the API 20NE system, negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose acidification, arginine dihydrolase, urease activity, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, β-galactosidase activity, and oxidase activity. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain J2 (= NIBRBAC000002260) was isolat- ed from a seawater sample in Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea.