novosphingobium taihuense novosphingobium taihuense novosphingobium taihuense is a bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from lake sediments from the taihu lake in china. novosphingobium taihuense has the ability to degrade phenol, aniline, nitrobenzene, 4-chloronitrobenzene and phenanthrene. novosphingobium taihuense scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. taihuense binomial name novosphingobium taihuenseliu et al. 2005 type strain as 1.3432, jcm 12465, t3-b9