thiomonas bhubaneswarensis thiomonas bhubaneswarensis thiomonas bhubaneswarensis is a gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, strictly aerobic, moderately thermophilic non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum from the genus thiomonas, which was isolated from hot-spring sediment samples in atri in bhubaneswar. t. bhubaneswarensis has the ability to oxidize thiosulfate. thiomonas bhubaneswarensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: comamonadaceae genus: thiomonas species: t. bhubaneswarensis binomial name thiomonas bhubaneswarensispanda et al. 2009 type strain dsm 18181, jcm 14806, s10