Massilia timonae

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 : 173

Description of Massilia timonae JMn9

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, flat, entire, and pale yellow-colored after three days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase activity. Utilizes L- Arabinose, D- mannose, D- maltose, malic acid, and trisodium citrate. Does not utilize D- glucose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain JMn9 (= VYWGBAC000000143) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Suncheon, Korea.