phenylobacterium terrae phenylobacterium terrae phenylobacterium terrae is a gram negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of phenylobacterium which has been isolated from soil from khyber pakhtun khwa in pakistan. phenylobacterium terrae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: caulobacterales family: caulobacteraceae genus: phenylobacterium species: p. terrae binomial name phenylobacterium terraekhan et al. 2019 type strain yim 730227t, kctc62324t, cgmcc 1.16326