kushneria pakistanensis kushneria pakistanensis kushneria pakistanensis is a gram-negative, moderately halophilic, rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of kushneria which has been isolated from the rhizosphere of the grass saccharum spontaneum from the karak district in pakistan. kushneria pakistanensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: oceanospirillales family: halomonadaceae genus: kushneria species: k. pakistanensis binomial name kushneria pakistanensisbangash et al. 2015 type strain nccp-934