Paracoccus seriniphilus

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2021, A report of 23 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 191-200 : 199

Description of Paracoccus seriniphilus JHR-13

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod or oval-shaped. Colonies are punctiform, convex, entire and white colored after 3 days of incubation on R2 A at 25℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation and β -galactosidase; but negative for esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, urease, indole production and gelatinase. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose and potassium gluconate. D-Mannose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are utilized. Strain JHR-13 (= NIBRBAC000498633) was isolated from seawater, Jeju Island, Korea .