Spongiibacter taiwanensis (SPT1, JCM 31012, BCRC 80916)

Name: Spongiibacter taiwanensis (SPT1, JCM 31012, BCRC 80916)
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BacDive ID 133174

Type strain

Strain Designation SPT1

Culture col. no. SPT1 JCM 31012 BCRC 80916

NCBI tax ID(s) 1748242

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History W. Y. Shieh; Inst. of Oceanogr., Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan; SPT1.

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Spongiibacter taiwanensis SPT1 is an aerobe, heterotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from aged seawater sample.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe heterotroph genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 26940

BCRC 80916,JCM 31012

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:53

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Cellvibrionales

Family Spongiibacteraceae

Genus Spongiibacter

Species Spongiibacter taiwanensis

Full scientific name Spongiibacter taiwanensis Jean et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
24950	negative	1.2-1.6 µm	0.6-0.7 µm	rod-shaped		polar
125438	negative						98.5

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
24950	1.0-2.0 mm	creamy	circular	5 days	PY broth medium

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
24950	PY broth medium

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
24950	positive	growth	4-37
24950	positive	optimum	30-35
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
24950	positive	optimum	7.0-8.0
24950	positive	growth	6.0-10.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

24950

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

24950

Typeheterotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.745

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24950		NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-10.0 %
24950	halophilic	NaCl	positive	optimum	1.0-3.0 %
24950		NaCl		growth	0 %
24950		NaCl		growth	12 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24950	2509 ChEBI	agar	-	hydrolysis
24950		casein	-	hydrolysis
24950	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
24950	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	hydrolysis
24950	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
24950	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	carbon source
24950	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	carbon source
24950	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
24950	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
24950	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
24950	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
24950	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
24950	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	-	carbon source
24950	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
24950	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
24950	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
24950	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
24950	35581 ChEBI	indole	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24950	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
24950	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
24950	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24950	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
24950	esterase (C 4)	+
24950	esterase lipase (C 8)	+
24950	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24950	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
24950	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
24950	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
24950	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24950	aged seawater sample	shallow coastal region of Nanya, Keelung	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia
67770	Aged seawater from the shallow coastal region of Nanya	Keelung	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KT966463 (>99% sequence identity) for Spongiibacter taiwanensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	757
Soil Samples	13
Animal Samples	55
Plant Samples
Total Samples	825

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2370263v1 assembly for Spongiibacter taiwanensis SPT1	complete	GCA_023702635	1748242.3	8055793758	1748242	99.46

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24950	Spongiibacter taiwanensis strain SPT1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT966463	1459		1748242

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24950	57.9	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Spongiibacter taiwanensis SPT1
NCBI: GCA_023702635.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.49	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	78.55	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.75	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.74	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	86.09	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Spongiibacter taiwanensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from aged seawater.	Jean WD, Yeh YT, Huang SP, Chen JS, Shieh WY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001316	2016

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#24950	W. D. Y. Jean, Yu-Ting,Huang, Ssu-Po,Chen, Jwo-Sheng,Shieh, Wung Yang: Spongiibacter taiwanensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from aged seawater. IJSEM 66: 4094 - 4098 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001316 , PubMed 27432363 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Spongiibacter taiwanensis (SPT1, JCM 31012, BCRC 80916)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_023702635

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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