afipia afipia afipia is a genus of bacteria in the nitrobacteraceae family. afipia scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: nitrobacteraceae genus: afipiabrenner et al. 1992 type species afipia felisbrenner et al. 1992 species "candidatus afipia apatlaquensis" sanchez-reyes et al. 2020 afipia birgiae la scola et al. 2002 afipia broomeae brenner et al. 1992 afipia carboxidovorans (meyer et al. 1994) hördt et al. 2020 afipia clevelandensis brenner et al. 1992 afipia felis brenner et al. 1992 afipia massiliensis la scola et al. 2002 "candidatus afipia septicemium" 'pseudomonas' carboxydohydrogena synonyms oligotropha meyer et al. 1994 phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn). the phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis. afipia afipia felis afipia carboxidovorans afipia birgiae afipia clevelandensis afipia broomeae outgroups nitrobacter rhodopseudomonas bradyrhizobium