qipengyuania flava qipengyuania flava qipengyuania flava is a gram-negative, non-spore-forming, slightly halophilic and motile bacteria from the genus qipengyuania which has been isolated from sea water from the sea of japan from the hwajinpo beach in korea. qipengyuania flava scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: qipengyuania species: q. flava binomial name qipengyuania flava(yoon et al. 2003) lee and kim 2020 type strain jcm 11808, kccm 41642, sw-46 synonyms erythrobacter flavus yoon et al. 2003