massilia lutea massilia lutea massilia lutea is a gram-negative, non-spore-forming, short rod-shaped, motile bacterium with a peritrichous flagellum from the genus massilia and family oxalobacteraceae. massilia haematophila scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: oxalobacteraceae genus: massilia species: m. lutea binomial name massilia luteazhang et al. 2006, sp. nov. type strain 101, cctcc ab204073, ccug 52216, cip 109190, dsm 17473, kctc 12345 synonyms sinobacter luteus etymology the specific name lutea comes from the latin lutea which means golden yellow, because of the color of its colonies.