shimia abyssi shimia abyssi shimia abyssi is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of shimia which has been isolated from sediments from the sagami bay in japan. shimia abyssi scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: shimia species: s. abyssi binomial name shimia abyssi(nogi et al. 2016) wirth and whitman 2018 type strain dsm 100673, jcm 30900 synonyms thalassobius abyssi