Pseudoalteromonas aurantia 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 : 323

Description of Pseudoalteromonas aurantia IMCC 44007

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, undulate, translucent, and orange-colored after incubation for 3 days on MA at 25℃. Positive for glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, and urease 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 IMCC44007 (= HNIBRBA6978) was isolated from a coastal seawater sample, Guridong Beach in Yeonpyeongdo Island , Ongjin-gun, Incheon, Korea .