Agar colonies: Circular to amoeboid, white, flat, glistening, opaque, entire.
Agar slant: Filiform, pale buff, raised, smooth, glistening, undulate.
Broth: Turbid.
Nitrites not produced from nitrates.
Starch not hydrolyzed.
No acid from carbohydrate media.
Attacks phenol.
Aerobic, facultative.
Grows at 37° C.
Source: Isolated from soil.
Habitat: Soil.
39. Pseudomonas desmolytica Gray and Thornton, 1928. (Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 73, 1928, 90.)
des.mo.ly′ti.ca. Gr. desmus bond; Gr. lyticus able to loose; M.L. adj. desmolyticus bond-loosening.
Rods, 0.7 to 0.8 by 2.0 to 3.0 microns, occurring singly and in pairs. Motile, with one to five polar flagella. Gram-negative.
Gelatin colonies: Circular, gray to buff, raised or umbonate. Smooth, glistening, entire.
Gelatin stab: No liquefaction.
Agar colonies: Circular or amoeboid, whitish, flat or convex, smooth, translucent to opaque, entire.
Agar slant: Filiform, pale buff, raised, smooth, undulate.
Broth: Turbid.
Nitrites often produced from nitrates.
Starch not hydrolyzed.
Acid usually produced from glucose.
Attacks naphthalene.
Aerobic, facultative.
Grows at 35° C.
Source: Isolated from soil.
Habitat: Soil.
40. Pseudomonas rathonis Gray and Thornton, 1928. (Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 73, 1928, 90.)
ra.tho′nis. Ratho Park, place name; M.L. gen. noun rathonis of Ratho.
Small rods, 0.5 to 1.0 by 1.0 to 3.0 microns, occurring singly and in pairs. Motile, with polar flagella. Gram-negative.
Gelatin colonies: Circular, white, raised, smooth, glistening, undulate.
Gelatin stab: No liquefaction.
Agar colonies: Circular, buff, flat, smooth, glistening, entire.
Agar slant: Filiform, pale buff, convex, smooth, glistening, undulate.
Broth: Turbid; pellicle may form.
Nitrites may be produced from nitrates.
Starch may be hydrolyzed.
Acid may be produced from glucose and glycerol.
Attacks phenol and cresol at times, also naphthalene.
Aerobic, facultative.
Grows at 35° C.
Source: Isolated from manure and soil.
Habitat: Manure and soil.
41. Pseudomonas salopia Gray and Thornton, 1928. (Pseudomonas salopium (sic) Gray and Thornton, Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 73, 1928, 91.)
sa.lo′pi.a. Med.L. Salop Shropshire; M.L. adj. salopius of Shropshire.
Rods, 0.7 to 1.0 by 1.0 to 3.0 microns, occurring singly and in pairs. Motile with one to six polar flagella. Gram-negative.
Gelatin colonies: Circular, grayish buff, flat, rugose or ringed, translucent border.
Gelatin stab: No liquefaction.
Agar colonies: Circular or amoeboid, white to buff, flat to convex, smooth, glistening, translucent border, entire.
Agar slant: Filiform, whitish, raised, smooth, glistening, lobate.
Broth: Turbid with pellicle.
Nitrites not produced from nitrates.
Starch not hydrolyzed.
Acid from glucose and sucrose.
Attacks naphthalene.
Aerobic, facultative.
Grows at 35° C.
Source: Isolated from soil.
Habitat: Soil.
42. Pseudomonas cruciviae Gray and Thornton, 1928. (Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 73, 1928, 91.)
cru.ci'vi.ae. L. crux, crucis a cross; L. via a way; M.L. Crucivia Waycross, a place name.
Rods, 1.0 by 1.0 to 3.0 microns, occurring singly and in pairs. Motile with one to five polar flagella. Gram-negative.
