kushneria aurantia kushneria aurantia kushneria aurantia is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and moderately halophilic bacterium from the genus of kushneria which has been isolated from the surface of leaves from the mangrove avicennia germinans. kushneria aurantia scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: oceanospirillales family: halomonadaceae genus: kushneria species: k. aurantia binomial name kushneria aurantiasánchez-porro et al. 2009 type strain a10