Devosia naphthalenivorans

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Won-Yong, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung-Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Kim, Seung-Bum & Jeon, Che-Ok, 2021, A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 10 (1), pp. 12-22 : 16

Description of Devosia naphthalenivorans BSSL- BR9

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, glistening, and yellowish white colored after 5 days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A. Positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, and β -galactosidase activities. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, and gelatinase activity. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain BSSL-BR9 (= NIBRBAC000503333) was isolated from a mud sample, Boryeong, Korea.