virgibacillus flavescens virgibacillus flavescens virgibacillus flavescens is a gram-variable, rod-shaped-forming, and motile bacterium from the genus of virgibacillus which has been isolated from marine sediments from the yellow sea in china. virgibacillus flavescens scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: bacilli order: bacillales family: bacillaceae genus: virgibacillus species: v. flavescens binomial name virgibacillus flavescenszhang et al. 2016 type strain dsm 29015, lmg 28381, strain s1-20