novosphingobium lentum novosphingobium lentum novosphingobium lentum is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, psychrotolerant and non-motile bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from chlorophenol-contaminated groundwater in finland. novosphingobium lentum has the ability to degrade chlorophenol. novosphingobium lentum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. lentum binomial name novosphingobium lentumtiirola et al. 2005 type strain ccug 45847, cip 108698, dsm 13663, nbrc 107847, mt1