sphingomonas laterariae sphingomonas laterariae sphingomonas laterariae is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacteria from the genus of sphingomonas which has been isolated from a dump site which was contaminated with hexachlorocyclohexane in ummari in india. sphingomonas koreensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas koreensiskaur et al. 2012 type strain ccm 7880, dsm 25432, lnb2, mtcc 10873