Ahrensia marina HMG

Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Seo, Taegun & Yoon, Che-Ok Jeon and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 156 unrecorded bacterial species of Republic of Korea belonging to the phyla Acidobacteriota, Deinococcota, Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 374-414 : 401

Description of Ahrensia marina HMG 3260

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and light pink after incubation for 7 days on MA at 25°C. In the API 20NE system, positive for cytochrome oxidase, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase; but negative for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, indole production, urease, arginine dihydrolase, and gelatin hydrolysis. Glucose, arabinose, mannose, mannitol, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, N -acetyl-glucosamine, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain HMG3260 (= NIBRBAC000509547) was isolat- ed from a seaweed sample at Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.