parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus is a gram-negative and aerobic bacterium from the genus of parapontixanthobacter which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the pacific ocean. parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: parapontixanthobacterxu et al. 2020 species: p. aurantiacus binomial name parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus(zhang et al. 2016) xu et al. 2020 type strain cgmcc 1.12762, jcm 19853, lmg 28110, mccc 1a09962, strain o30 synonyms altererythrobacter aurantiacus zhang et al. 2016