Description of Vibrio ruber HMF 8004 Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented and curved-rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and red colored after incubation for 2 days on MA at 30℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol and D-maltose are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not N-acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF8004 (= NIBRBAC000498457) was isolated from a saltern sample, Sinan, Korea.

Published as part of Kim, Min-Kyeong, Park, Jisun, Yun, Bo-Ram, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cha, Chang-Jun, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Wonyong, Lee, Soon Dong, Seong, Chi Nam & Kim, Hana Yi and Seung-Bum, 2018, Report of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to Gammaproteobacteria, pp. 24-35 in Journal of Species Research 7 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2018.7.1.024, http://zenodo.org/record/12753606