Halomonas xianhensis KYW1985

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 xianhensis KYW1985

The cells are gram-negative, non-flagellated, and short rod-shaped. The colonies are pale yellow in color, circular, smooth, translucent, and convex after incubation on MA plates at 25℃ for 2 days under aerobic conditions. It is positive for glucose fermentation and esculin hydrolysis; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, β-galactosidase, utilization of glucose, arabinose, mannose, mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid, and cytochrome oxidase, per the analysis using the API 20NE kit. Strain KYW1985 (= NIBRBAC000503 308) was isolated from seawater in Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea.