Sphingomonas alpina BT

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 27 unrecorded bacterial species within the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from various sources of Korea in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 33-44 : 42-43

Description of Sphingomonas alpina BT 752

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies grown on R2A agar are yellow, circular, convex, glistening, round and entire margins. Oxidase activity is positive. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for gelatinase activity and assimilation of L- arabinose, potassium gluconate and malate; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, urease, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of D- glucose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT752 (= NIBRBAC000508875) was isolated from a soil sample collected from Jeju, Republic of

Korea (33°19 ʹ 19 ʺ N 126°15 ʹ 55 ʺ E).