amylibacter cionae amylibacter cionae amylibacter cionae is a gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of amylibacter which has been isolated from the sea squirt ciona savignyi from jiaozhou bay in china. amylibacter cionae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: amylibacter species: a. cionae binomial name amylibacter cionaewang et al. 2017 type strain cgmcc 1.15880, kctc 52581, strain h-12