sneathiella chinensis sneathiella chinensis sneathiella chinensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, chemoheterotrophic, halotolerant and motile bacterium from the genus of sneathiella which has been isolated from coastal sediments from qingdao in china. sneathiella chinensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sneathiellales family: sneathiellaceae genus: sneathiella species: s. chinensis binomial name sneathiella chinensisjordan et al. 2007 type strain cbmai 737, lmg 23452, nbrc 103408