alcaligenes aquatilis alcaligenes aquatilis alcaligenes aaquatilis is a gram-negative, catalase- and cytochrome oxidase-positive, motile bacterium with peritrichous flagella, from the genus alcaligenes, which was isolated in germany from sediments of the weser estuary and in shem creek in charleston harbor in the united states from a salt marsh. a complete genome sequence of a. aquatilis is publicly available in dna data bank of japan, european nucleotide archive, and genbank. alcaligenes aquatilis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: alcaligenaceae genus: alcaligenes species: a. aquatilis binomial name alcaligenes aquatilisvan trappen et al. 2005 type strain ccug 50924, cip 108999, lmg 22996, r-21911, r-21911 qc /q3, tan 797, van trappen r-21911