Zhouia spongiae (MCCC 1K03329, LMG 30460, HN-Y44)

Name: Zhouia spongiae (MCCC 1K03329, LMG 30460, HN-Y44)
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BacDive ID 159859

Type strain

Strain Designation HN-Y44

Culture col. no. MCCC 1K03329 LMG 30460 HN-Y44

NCBI tax ID(s) 2202721

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Zhouia spongiae HN-Y44 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from marine sponge sample Mycale phyllophila.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 270373

LMG 30460

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:21

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Zhouia

Species Zhouia spongiae

Full scientific name Zhouia spongiae Zhuang et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
66575	negative	1.8-4.6 µm	0.2-0.3 µm	rod-shaped
125438					93.25
125438	negative				97.978

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
66575	1-2 mm	pale-yellow	circular	3 days	Marine agar (MA)

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
66575		flexirubin-type

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
66575	Marine agar (MA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
66575	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic
66575	positive	growth	10-40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
66575	positive	optimum	7-8
66575	positive	growth	6-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

66575

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.5

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
66575	NaCl	positive	growth	0-8 %(w/v)
66575	NaCl	positive	optimum	2-5 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66575	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
66575	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
66575		casein	-	hydrolysis
66575	53258 ChEBI	citric acid	-	assimilation
66575	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
66575	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from
66575	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation
66575	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
66575	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from
66575	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
66575	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from
66575	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
66575	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
66575	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
66575	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
66575	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
66575	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
66575	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
66575	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
66575	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
66575	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
66575	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
66575	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
66575	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
66575	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
66575	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
66575	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
66575	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
66575	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
66575	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	hydrolysis
66575	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
66575	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
66575	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
66575	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
66575	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66575	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
66575	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
66575	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
66575	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
66575	alpha-galactosidase	+/-	3.2.1.22
66575	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
66575	alpha-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.24
66575	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
66575	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
66575	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
66575	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
66575	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
66575	cystine aminopeptidase	+/-	3.4.11.3
66575	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
66575	esterase (C 4)	+
66575	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+/-
66575	leucine aminopeptidase	+	3.4.1.1
66575	lipase (C 14)	+/-
66575	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
66575	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
66575	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
66575	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
66575	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
66575	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
66575	urease	-	3.5.1.5
66575	valine aminopeptidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

66575

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso	26.8
C15:1 iso G	25.6
C17:0 iso 3OH	9.8
C15:0 anteiso	5.7
C16:1 w7c/ C16:1 w6c	4.4
C15:0 iso 3OH	3.8
C16:0 iso 3OH	3.5
C16:0 iso	3.1
C16:0	1.9
C15:1 anteiso A	1.9
C16:1 iso G	1.6
C13:1 at 12-13	1.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Porifera (Sponges)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
66575	marine sponge sample Mycale phyllophila	Mycale phyllophila	2016-06	Yangpu Bay, Hainan	China	CHN	Asia	19.6833	109.1 19.6833/109.1	YPG agar	1 % yeast extract, 1 % peptone, 2 % glucose and 1.5 % agar; seawater	14 days	28

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2276017v1 assembly for Zhouia spongiae HN-Y44	complete	GCA_022760175	2202721.3	8062640243	2202721	99.68

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66575	Zhouia spongiae strain HN-Y44 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG437234	1428		2202721

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
66575	32.90	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Zhouia spongiae HN-Y44
NCBI: GCA_022760175.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.98	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.62	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	84.24	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.50	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	99.40	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.25	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Zhouia spongiae sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge.	Zhuang L, Lin B, Qin F, Luo L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002808	2018
Phylogeny	Description of Abyssalbus ytuae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the sediment of the Mariana Trench.	Xu X, Zhang S, Sun X, Xu X, Zhang J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005459	2022

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 )
#66575	Lingping Zhuang, Binbin Lin, Fei Qin and Lianzhong Luo: Zhouia spongiae sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge. IJSEM 68: 2194 - 2198 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002808 , PubMed 29781798 )
#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) .
#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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Zhouia spongiae (MCCC 1K03329, LMG 30460, HN-Y44)

Name and taxonomic classification