pasteurella lymphangitidis pasteurella lymphangitidis pasteurella lymphangitidis is a bacterium; it causes bovine lymphangitis. its reclassification to yersinia has been proposed, given it poses a 99% sequence similarity to both yersinia pseudotuberculosis and yersinia pestis. pasteurella lymphangitidis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: pasteurellales family: pasteurellaceae genus: pasteurella species: p. lymphangitidis binomial name pasteurella lymphangitidissneath and stevens 1990