Genus Tepidimonas

Name: Tepidimonas Moreira et al. 2000

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.pi.di’mo.nas. L. masc. adj. tepidus, warm; L. fem. n. monas, unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Tepidimonas, warm monad

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Tepidimonad-), te-pi-DI-mo-nas

Type species: Tepidimonas ignava Moreira et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Moreira C, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Silva MT, da Costa MS. Tepidimonas ignava gen. nov., sp. nov., a new chemolithoheterotrophic and slightly thermophilic member of the beta-Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:735-742. 🇵🇹

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Albuquerque et al. 2006 Albuquerque L, Tiago I, Verissimo A, da Costa MS. Tepidimonas thermarum sp. nov., a new slightly thermophilic betaproteobacterium isolated from the Elisenquelle in Aachen and emended description of the genus Tepidimonas. Syst Appl Microbiol 2006; 29:450-456. 🇵🇹 Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 5. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:4-5.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 4; LMG: 4; BCRC: 4; DSM: 2; CCUG: 2; CCTCC: 2; JCM: 2; ATCC: 1; NBRC: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Tepidimonas alkaliphila corrig. Habib et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas alkaliphilus Habib et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Tepidimonas aquatica Freitas et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas arfidensis Ko et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas charontis Albuquerque et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas fonticaldi Chen et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Tepidimonas hongkongensis" Chiu et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name
    Tepidimonas ignava Moreira et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas sediminis Habib et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas taiwanensis Chen et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tepidimonas thermarum Albuquerque et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸

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