novosphingobium aquiterrae novosphingobium aquiterrae novosphingobium aquiterrae is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from ground water from daejeon in korea. novosphingobium aquiterrae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. aquiterrae binomial name novosphingobium aquiterraelee et al. 2014 type strain kacc 17599, nbrc 109812, ncaim b 02537, e-ii-3, imer-b1-18