chitinimonas koreensis chitinimonas koreensis chitinimonas koreensis is a gram-negative, catalase- and oxidase-positive motile bacterium with a single flagellum of the genus chitinimonas and the family burkholderiaceae which was isolated from greenhouse soil in korea. chitinimonas koreensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: burkholderiaceae genus: chitinimonas species: c. koreensis binomial name chitinimonas koreensiskim et al. 2006 type strain cip 109380, dsm 17726, kacc 11467, r-2 a43-10