novosphingobium malaysiense novosphingobium malaysiense novosphingobium malaysiense is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from mangrove soil from the tanjung lumpur river in pahang in malaysia. novosphingobium malaysiense scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. malaysiense binomial name novosphingobium malaysienselee et al. 2014 type strain dsm 27798, mccc 1a00645, nbrc 109947, musc 273