massilia tieshanensis massilia tieshanensis massilia tieshanensis is a gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod-shaped, motile bacterium from the genus massilia and family oxalobacteraceae, which was isolated from a metal mine soil in tieshan district in central china. colonies are straw-yellow. massilia tieshanensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: oxalobacteraceae genus: massilia species: m. tieshanensis binomial name massilia tieshanensisdu et al. 2012, sp. nov. type strain cctcc ab 2010202, kacc 14940, ts3