Rhodococcus phenolicus, Rehfuss & Urban, 2006

Kim, Pil Soo, Lee, Ki-Eun, Tak, Euon Jung & Bae, Myung-Suk Kang and Jin-Woo, 2020, A report of 12 unrecorded prokaryotic species isolated from gastrointestinal tracts and feces of various endangered animals in Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (1), pp. 35-45 : 43

Description of Rhodococcus phenolicus VT2414

Cells are Gram-staining positive, non-flagellated, and coccus-shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex, and ivory colored after 2 days of incubation on TSA at 20℃. Sodium lactate, D- lactic acid, L- lactic acid, L- malic acid, succinic acid, Tween 40, potassium tellurite, β -butryric acid, acetoacetic acid, propionic acid, acetic acid, and sodium butyrate are utilized as the sole source of carbon (Biolog GEN III). Positive for following enzyme activities: reduction of nitrates, alkaline phosphatase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), leucine arylamidase, acid phosphatase, and naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase ( API ZYM and API 20NE). Positive for the utilization of following substrates: valerate, 3-hydroxy-butyrate, suberate, acetate, D, L- lactate, and 3-hydroxy-benzoate ( API ID 32 GN).

Strain VT 2412 (= NIBRBAC000499827) was isolated from the feces of an Andean condor ( Vultur gryphus ), Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. The DNA G + C content of the type strain is 65.77 mol %.