microbulbifer mangrovi microbulbifer mangrovi microbulbifer mangrovi is a polysaccharide-degrading bacterium isolated from an indian mangrove, hence its name. it is rod-shaped, gram-negative, non-motile, aerobic and non-endospore forming, its type strain designated dd-13(t). microbulbifer mangrovi scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: alteromonadaceae genus: microbulbifer species: microbulbifer mangrovivashist et al. 2013