sphingomonas aerolata sphingomonas aerolata sphingomonas aerolata is a gram-negative and psychrotolerant bacteria from the genus of sphingomonas. sphingomonas aerolata scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas aerolatabusse et al. 2003 type strain busse nw12, ccug 48435, cip 108369, dsm 14746, lmg 21376, nw12