Description of Ochrobactrum pseudintermedium 16_S3_F7 Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, smooth, raised, and white-colored after 2 days of incubation on R 2A at 30°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and cytochrome oxidase, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase in the API 20NE test. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, malic acid, and trisodium citrate are utilized but adipic acid and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain 16_S3_F7 (= NIBRBAC000498580) was isolated from a freshwater sample collected at Han-River.

Published as part of Joung, Yochan, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Kim, Wonyong & Cho, Soon Dong Lee and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2016, belonging to the orders Rhizobiales and Sphingomonadales in the class Alphaproteobacteria, pp. 13-23 in Journal of Species Research 7 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2018.7.1.013, http://zenodo.org/record/12753586