Ahrensia kielensis IMCC

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 167

Description of Ahrensia kielensis IMCC 34184

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, convex, and pale white-colored after five days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A agar using seawater. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and urease and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase activity. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain IMCC34184 (= VYWGBAC000000113) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Incheon, Korea.