qipengyuania vulgaris qipengyuania vulgaris qipengyuania vulgaris is a gram-negative and aerobic bacteria from the genus qipengyuania which has been isolated from a starfish (stellaster equestris) from the south china sea. qipengyuania vulgaris scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: qipengyuania species: q. vulgaris binomial name qipengyuania vulgaris(ivanova et al. 2006) xu et al. 2020 type strain cip 108956, kmm 3465, 022-2-10 synonyms erythrobacter vulgaris ivanova et al. 2006