Description of Chitinophaga cymbidii FS 31 Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium (0.6-0.7 μm wide, 1.7-1.8 μm long). Colonies grown on R2 A are pale yellow, circular, convex, smooth, and opaque. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for nitrate reduction; indole production; aesculin hydrolysis; β -galactosidase activity; and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and D- maltose, but negative for glucose fermentation; activity of arginine dihydrolase and urease; gelatin hydrolysis; and assimilation of D- mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain FS31 (= NIBRBAC000503298) was isolated from a soil sample collected from Suncheon, Republic of Korea (35°00 ʹ 06.4 ʺ N, 127°30 ʹ 28.5 ʺ E).

Published as part of Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Yi, Hana, Kim, Wonyong, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi Nam, Kim, Seung Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Joh, Che Ok Jeon and Kiseong, 2021, A report of 43 unrecorded bacterial species within the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes isolated from various sources from Korea in 2019, pp. 117-133 in Journal of Species Research 10 (2) on page 125, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2021.10.2.117, http://zenodo.org/record/12753253