cribrihabitans pelagius cribrihabitans pelagius cribrihabitans pelagius is a gram-negative, strictly aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of cribrihabitans which has been isolated from seawater from the beach of najeong in korea. cribrihabitans pelagius scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: cribrihabitans species: c. pelagius binomial name cribrihabitans pelagiusyoon et al. 2016 type strain kctc 42981, nbrc 111834, stran kmu-32