Aquimarina spongiicola (KACC 19274, LMG 30078, 122CH820-2)

Name: Aquimarina spongiicola (KACC 19274, LMG 30078, 122CH820-2)
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BacDive ID 158701

Type strain

Strain Designation 122CH820-2

Culture col. no. KACC 19274 LMG 30078 122CH820-2

NCBI tax ID(s) 2093342

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Aquimarina spongiicola 122CH820-2 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from spongin.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 266374

LMG 30078

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:24

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Aquimarina

Species Aquimarina spongiicola

Full scientific name Aquimarina spongiicola Choi et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
65440	negative	2.5-4.0 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	rod-shaped		gliding

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
65440	1-2 mm	orange	circular	3 days	marine agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
65440		flexirubin type pigments

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65440	Marine agar (MA)
65440	Trypticase soy agar
65440	MacConkey agar
65440	lysogeny broth
65440	Reasoner's 2A agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65440	positive	growth	20-30
65440	negative	growth	18
65440	negative	growth	37
65440	positive	optimum	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65440	positive	optimum	6
65440	positive	growth	6-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

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Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

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Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65440	NaCl	positive	growth	1-7 %(w/v)
65440	KCl	positive	optimum	3 %(w/v)

Observation

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ObservationMK-6 is the only respiratory quinone

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65440	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	-	carbon source
65440	17879 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzoate	+	carbon source
65440	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	carbon source
65440		casein	+	hydrolysis
65440	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
65440	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	carbon source
65440	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
65440	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	carbon source
65440	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	carbon source
65440	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
65440	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	carbon source
65440	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	carbon source
65440	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	carbon source
65440	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	carbon source
65440	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
65440	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	carbon source
65440	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
65440	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	carbon source
65440	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
65440	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
65440	31011 ChEBI	valerate	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65440	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
65440	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
65440	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
65440	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65440	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
65440	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
65440	esterase (C 4)	+
65440	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
65440	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
65440	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
65440	protease	+
65440	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
65440	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

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Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso	36.9
C17:0 iso 3OH	25.9
C15:1 iso G	11
C15:0 iso 3OH	6.1
iso-C17:1ω9c/C16:0 10-methyl	6
C 16 : 1ω7c/C16:1ω6c	4.1
C16:0 iso	1.5
C16:0 iso 3OH	1
C16:0 3OH	1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
65440	spongin	Jeju-Do	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia	marine agar	3 days	30

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KY451769 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquimarina from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	12
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	12

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65440	Aquimarina spongiicola 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY451769

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65440	35.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquimarina spongiicola sp. nov., isolated from spongin.	Choi KD, Lee GE, Park JS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002575	2018

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 )
#65440	Kang Duk Choi, Ga-Eun Lee, Jin-Sook Park: Aquimarina spongiicola sp. nov., isolated from spongin. IJSEM 68: 990 - 994 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002575 , PubMed 29458468 )
#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 .
#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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Aquimarina spongiicola (KACC 19274, LMG 30078, 122CH820-2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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