sphingomonas pruni sphingomonas pruni sphingomonas pruni is a bacterium from the genus of sphingomonas which has been isolated from the roots of the tree prunus persica in japan . sphingomonas pruni scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas prunitakeuchi et al. 1995 type strain atcc 51838 , bcrc 17402, ccrc 17402, cip 107352, dsm 10566, hambi 2069, iam 14461, ifo 15498, jcm 10277, kctc 2824, lmg 17327, lmg 17538, lmg 18380, nbrc 15498, ncimb 13411, y-250