Tenacibaculum singaporense IMCC

Lim, Yeonjung, Sa, Hyeonuk, Kim, Minjeong, Kim, Minseok, Han, Jisoo & Cho, Hyerim Cho and Jang-Cheon, 2024, Discovery of 18 previously unrecorded bacterial species in the coastal areas surrounding Korean islands in 2023, Journal of Species Research 13 (3), pp. 318-325 : 324

Description of Tenacibaculum singaporense IMCC 44476

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, umbonate, entire, and yellow-colored after incubation for 3 days on MA at 20℃. Positive for gelatin hydrolysis, and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain IMCC44476 (= HNIBRBA6993) was isolated from a coastal seawater sample, Handle Beach in Jangbongdo Island , Ongjin-gun, Incheon, Korea .