shimia aquaeponti shimia aquaeponti shimia aquaeponti is a gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of shimia which has been isolated from seawater from the geoje island in korea. shimia aquaeponti scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: shimia species: s. aquaeponti binomial name shimia aquaeponti(park et al. 2015) wirth and whitman 2018 type strain kctc 42115, nbrc 110378 synonyms thalassobius aquaeponti