tsukamurella serpentis tsukamurella serpentis tsukamurella serpentis is a bacterium from the genus of tsukamurella which has been isolated from the mouth of the snake naja atra from the queen mary hospital in hong kong. tsukamurella serpentis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: actinomycetota class: actinomycetia order: mycobacteriales family: tsukamurellaceae genus: tsukamurella species: t. serpentis binomial name tsukamurella serpentistang et al. 2016 type strain dsm 100915, jcm 31017, hku54, hku55