gordonia cholesterolivorans gordonia cholesterolivorans gordonia cholesterolivorans is a bacterium from the genus gordonia which has been isolated from sewage sludge from a sewage treatment plant in ciudad real in spain. gordonia cholesterolivorans has the ability to degrade cholesterol. gordonia cholesterolivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: actinomycetota class: actinomycetia order: mycobacteriales family: gordoniaceae genus: gordonia species: g. cholesterolivorans binomial name gordonia cholesterolivoransdrzyzga et al. 2009 type strain cect 7408, chol-3, cip 110048, dsm 45229, jcm 16227