shimia sagamensis shimia sagamensis shimia sagamensis is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, aerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of shimia which has been isolated from sediments from the sagami bay in japan. shimia sagamensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: shimia species: s. sagamensis binomial name shimia sagamensisnogi et al. 2015 type strain dsm 29734, jcm 30583