sphingomonas indica sphingomonas indica sphingomonas indica is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacteria from the genus of sphingomonas which has been isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane soil from a dump site in ummari near lucknow in uttar pradesh in india. sphingomonas indica scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas indicaniharika et al. 2012 type strain ccm 7882, dd16, dsm 25434