novosphingobium chloroacetimidivorans novosphingobium chloroacetimidivorans novosphingobium chloroacetimidivorans is a gram-negative, chloroacetamide-degrading and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant in kunshan city in china. novosphingobium chloroacetimidivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. chloroacetimidivorans binomial name novosphingobium chloroacetimidivoranschen et al. 2014 type strain cctcc ab 2013086, jcm 19923, kacc 17147, but-14