mucilaginibacter rubeus mucilaginibacter rubeus mucilaginibacter rubeus is a bacterium from the genus of mucilaginibacter which has been isolated from a gold and copper mine from longyan in china. mucilaginibacter rubeus scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: sphingobacteriia order: sphingobacteriales family: sphingobacteriaceae genus: mucilaginibacter species: m. rubeus binomial name mucilaginibacter rubeuswei et al. 2017 type strain cgmcc 1.15913, kctc 52516, strain ef23