Description of Micrococcus flavus HME 8781 Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and rod­shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and yellow-colored after 2 days on MA at 30℃. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β-galactosidase in API 20NE. D­glucose D­maltose and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize L­arabinose, D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain HME8781 (= NIBRBA0000114092) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Sinan, Korea.

Published as part of Choi, Jung-Hye, Cha, Ju-Hee, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Chun, Jongsik, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung Bum, Seong, Chi Nam, Yoon, Jung-Hoon & Cha, Chang-Jun, 2016, Report on 31 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea that belong to the phylum Actinobacteria, pp. 1-13 in Journal of Species Research 5 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2016.5.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/8120360