Description of Nitratireductor aquibiodomus KH 7a Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, entire, and pale yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on MA at 30°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and esculin hydrolysis, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase in the API 20NE test. D- Glucose, D-mannose, N -acetylglucosamine, D-maltose, and trisodium citrate are utilized but L-arabinose, Dmannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain KH7a (= NIBRBAC000498412) was isolated from an algal sample collected at Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea.

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