Maribacter vaceletii

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 21 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea belonging to the phylum Bacteroidota isolated in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 23-32 : 29

Description of Maribacter vaceletii D2-5

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies are circular and yellow colored after aerobic incubation for two days on marine agar 2216 (MA) at 30℃. In the API 20NE system, positive reaction for esculin hydrolysis, and utilization of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, N- acetylglucosamine,D- maltose, malic acid and trisodium citrate. In the API 20NE system, negative reaction for oxidase activity, nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease activity, gelatin hydrolysis, β-galactosidase activity, and utilization of D- mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain D2-5 (= NIBRBAC000508961) was isolated from seaweed from Yeongdeok, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea.