shimia marina shimia marina shimia marina is a bacterium from the genus of shimia which has been isolated from biofilm from a coastal fish farm from tongyeong in korea. shimia marina scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: shimia species: s. marina binomial name shimia marinachoi and cho 2006 type strain cect 7688, dsm 26895, jcm 13038