gordonia paraffinivorans gordonia paraffinivorans gordonia paraffinivorans is a bacterium from the genus gordonia which has been isolated from the daqing oil field in china. gordonia paraffinivorans has the ability to degrade hydrocarbon. gordonia paraffinivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: actinomycetota class: actinomycetia order: mycobacteriales family: gordoniaceae genus: gordonia species: g. paraffinivorans binomial name gordonia paraffinivoransxue et al. 2003 type strain as 4.1730, bcrc 16372, ccrc 16372, cgmcc 4.1730, cip 108331, dsm 44604, hd321, ifm 10631, jcm 12461