kurthia huakuii kurthia huakuii kurthia huakuii is a gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, spore-forming, short rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of kurthia which has been isolated from biogas slurry from the hebei province in china. kurthia huakuii scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: bacilli order: bacillales family: planococcaceae genus: kurthia species: k. gibsonii binomial name kurthia gibsoniiruan et al. 2014 type strain accc 06121, jcm 19187, strain lam0618