nitropelagi nitropelagi "nitropelagi" is a gram-negative and aerobic genus of bacteria in the family rhodobacteraceae with one known species, "nitropelagi marinus". "nitropelagi marinus" has been isolated from seawater from the jebu island in korea. nitropelagi scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: nitropelagijeong & lee, 2016 species: n. marinus binomial name nitropelagi marinusjeong & lee, 2016