Maribacter orientalis HD

Kim, Haneul, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Kiseong, 2016, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 166-178 : 174

Description of Maribacter orientalis HD 32

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex, glistening and yellow colored after 3 days on MA at 30°C. Oxidase- activity is positive. In the API 20NE strip, nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase activity are positive, but indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatinase activities 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, phenylacetic acid are negative. Strain HD32 (= NIBRBA0000114316) has been isolated from a sand of seashore sample, Pohang, Korea.