Halobacillus litoralis, Spring , 1996

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Yi, Hana, Kim, Wonyong, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi Nam, Kim, Seung Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Joh, Che Ok Jeon and Kiseong, 2021, A report of 43 unrecorded bacterial species within the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes isolated from various sources from Korea in 2019, Journal of Species Research 10 (2), pp. 117-133 : 127

Description of Halobacillus litoralis JBTF-M5

Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, non-flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium (0.5-0.8 μm wide, 0.8-1.3 μm long). Colonies grown on marine agar are light yellow, circular, slightly convex, and glistening. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for hydrolysis of aesculin and gelatin; and β -galactosidase activity, but negative for nitrate reduction; indole production; glucose fermentation; activity of arginine dihydrolase and urease; and assimilation of 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 JBTF-M5 (= NIBRBAC000503334) was isolated from a tidal flat sample collected from Hwaseong , Republic of Korea (37°09 ʹ 48.0 ʺ N, 126°37 ʹ 01.0 ʺ E).