methylobacter tundripaludum methylobacter tundripaludum methylobacter tundripaludum is a methane-oxidizing bacterium. it is gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore forming, with type strain sv96t (=dsm 17260t =atcc baa-1195t). its genome has been sequenced. methylobacter tundripaludum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: methylococcales family: methylococcaceae genus: methylobacter binomial name methylobacter tundripaludumwartiainen et al. 2006