pelobium manganitolerans pelobium manganitolerans pelobium manganitolerans is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, facultative anaerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of pelobium which has been isolated from sludge from a manganese mine. pelobium manganitolerans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: sphingobacteriia order: sphingobacteriales family: sphingobacteriaceae genus: pelobium species: p. manganitolerans binomial name pelobium manganitoleransxia et al. 2016 type strain cctcc ab 2016051, kctc 52203, ys-25