mesorhizobium shonense mesorhizobium shonense mesorhizobium shonense is a bacterium from the genus mesorhizobium which was isolated in southern ethiopia. mesorhizobium shonense scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: phyllobacteriaceae genus: mesorhizobium species: m. shonense binomial name mesorhizobium shonensedegefu et al. 2013 type strain ac39a, hambi 3295, lmg 26966