pseudooceanicola batsensis pseudooceanicola batsensis pseudooceanicola batsensis is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, chemoheterotrophic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of pseudooceanicola which has been isolated from seawater from the sargasso sea. pseudooceanicola batsensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodobacterales family: rhodobacteraceae genus: pseudooceanicola species: p. batsensis binomial name pseudooceanicola batsensis( cho and giovannoni 2004) lai et al. 2015 type strain atcc baa-863, dsm 15984, kctc 12145 synonyms oceanicola batsensis