microvirgula aerodenitrificans microvirgula aerodenitrificans microvirgula aerodenitrificans is a species of bacteria, the only species in its genus. it is a gram-negative, catalase-and oxidase-positive, curved rod-shaped and motile denitrifier. it is aerobic as well as an anoxic heterotroph, having an atypical respiratory type of metabolism in which oxygen and nitrogen oxides are used simultaneously as terminal electron acceptors. sgly2t is its type strain. microvirgula aerodenitrificans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: neisseriales family: neisseriaceae genus: microvirgula species: m. aerodenitrificans binomial name microvirgula aerodenitrificanspatureau et al. 1998