Halomonas titanicae KYW1809

Weerawongwiwat, Veeraya, Kim, Myung Kyum, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Seong, Chi-Nam, Yi, Hana & Kim, Jung-Hoon Yoon and Wonyong, 2021, A report on 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 201-216 : 211

Description of Halomonas titanicae KYW1809

The cells are gram-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. The colonies are cream-colored, circular, convex, opaque, and smooth after incubation on MA plates at 25℃ for 3 days under aerobic conditions. It is positive for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, β-galactosidase, and utilization of glucose, arabinose, mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid, and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and utilization of mannose, capric acid, and adipic acid, per the analysis using the API 20NE kit. Strain KYW1809 (= NIBRBAC 000503291) was isolated from seawater from Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea.