caenispirillum deserti caenispirillum deserti caenispirillum deserti is a gram-negative, vibrio-shaped, aerobic, spheroplast-forming and motile bacterium from the genus of caenispirillum which has been isolated from the salt desert in kutch in india. caenispirillum deserti scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodospirillales family: rhodospirillaceae genus: caenispirillum species: c. deserti binomial name caenispirillum desertidivyasree et al. 2015 type strain jc232, jc252, kctc 42064, nbrc 110150