Oceanisphaera avium, Sung & Kim & Lee & Kang & Kim & Hyun & Tak & Jung & Yun & Kim & Shin & Whon & Rho & Park & Shim & Bae, 2018

Sung, Hojun, Kim, Hyun Sik, Lee, June-Young, Kang, Woorim, Kim, Pil Soo, Hyun, Dong-Wook, Tak, Euon Jung, Jung, Mi-Ja, Yun, Ji-Hyun, Kim, Min-Soo, Shin, Na-Ri, Whon, Tae Woong, Rho, Jeong Rae, Park, Sun Duk, Shim, Hyung Eun & Bae, Jin-Woo, 2018, Oceanisphaera avium sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the cinereous vulture, Aegypius monachus, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 68 (6), pp. 2068-2073 : 2071-2072

DESCRIPTION OF OCEANISPHAERA AVIUM SP. NOV.

Oceanisphaera avium sp. nov. (a′ vi.um. L. gen. pl. n. avium of birds).

Strain AMac2203 T is a Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, catalase- and oxidase-positive, DNase-negative, rod-shaped, motile bacterial species. Growth occurs optimally at 15– 25 Ǫ C, at pH 7–8 and in the presence of 3–5 % (w/v) NaCl. Colonies are circular, smooth and beige in colour after incubation for 2 days at 20 Ǫ C on modified TYS agar. Strain AMac2203 T can hydrolyse aesculin and possesses catalase, oxidase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8) and leucine arylamidase enzyme activities. Additionally, the isolate can assimilate D,L- lactic acid, pyruvic acid methyl ester, acetic acid, formic acid, succinic acid, bromosuccinic acid, L- alaninamide, D- alanine, L- alanine, L- asparagine, L- aspartic acid, L- glutamic acid, L- histidine, L- leucine, L- ornithine, L- phenylalanine, L- serine, L- threonine and malic acid. The predominant fatty acids are summed feature 3 (C 16: 0 Ɯ 7 c and/ or C 16: 1 Ɯ 6 c), summed feature 8 (C 18: 1 Ɯ 7 c) and C 16: 0. The predominant ubiquinone is Q-8, and polar lipids comprise phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified amino lipid and an unidentified lipid. The OrthoANI value between strain AMac2203 T and O. profunda KCTC 32510 T is 77.5 %, and the genomic DNA G+C content of strain AMac2203 T is 47.1 mol%.

The type strain, AMac2203 T (=KCTC 62118 T =JCM 32207 T), was isolated from the gut of the cinereous vulture, Aegypius monachus , from faecal samples collected at the Seoul Grand Park Zoo , Republic of Korea.