pelagerythrobacter aerophilus pelagerythrobacter aerophilus pelagerythrobacter aerophilus is a gram-negative and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus pelagerythrobacter which has been isolated from deep-sea seawater from the mariana trench. pelagerythrobacter aerophilus scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: pelagerythrobacter species: p. aerophilus binomial name pelagerythrobacter aerophilus(meng et al. 2019) xu et al. 2020 type strain ery1 synonyms altererythrobacter aerophilus meng et al. 2019