psychroglaciecola arctica psychroglaciecola arctica psychroglaciecola arctica is a gram-negative, facultatively methylotrophic, aerobic and motile bacterium from the genus psychroglaciecola with a single polar flagellum which has been isolated from soil from glacial foreland near ny-ålesund in norway. psychroglaciecola arctica scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: methylobacteriaceae genus: psychroglaciecola species: p. arctica binomial name psychroglaciecola arcticaqu et al. 2014 type strain cctcc ab 2013033, kacc 17684, m6-76