chitinispirillum chitinispirillum chitinispirillum is a genus of bacteria from the family of chitinispirillaceae with one known species (chitinispirillum alkaliphilum). chitinispirillum alkaliphilum has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from the wadi el natrun valley in egypt. chitinispirillum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: fibrobacterota class: chitinispirilliasorokin et al. 2016 order: chitinispirillalessorokin et al. 2016 family: chitinispirillaceaesorokin et al. 2016 genus: chitinispirillumsorokin et al. 2016 type species chitinispirillum alkaliphilum species c. alkaliphilum