sphingomonas polyaromaticivorans sphingomonas polyaromaticivorans sphingomonas polyaromaticivorans is a gram-negative, aerobic, short-rod-shaped and non-motile bacteria from the genus of sphingomonas which has been isolated from water from the botan oil port in xiamen in china. sphingomonas polyaromaticivorans has the ability to degrade hydrocarbon compounds. sphingomonas polyaromaticivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas polyaromaticivoransluo et al. 2012 type strain jcm 16711, kccm 42951, b2-7