title: Sphingopyxis italica
text: # Sphingopyxis italica
  
  Sphingopyxis italica is a bacterium. It is Gram-negative, aerobic, motile, rod-shaped and was isolated from volcanic rock in the Roman catacombs of Saint Callixtus in Rome. Its type strain is $SC13E-S71^T$ ( = DSM $25229^T$  = CECT $8016^T).$
  
  