Name: Meiothermus roseus Ming et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ro’se.us. L. masc. adj. roseus, rose coloured, rosy, as a rose-coloured diffusible pigment is produced on R2A medium

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 29972; KCTC 42495; NBRC 110900; YIM 71031

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP232921 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Ming H, Duan YY, Guo QQ, Yin YR, Zhou EM, Liu L, Li S, Nie GX, Li WJ. Meiothermus roseus sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a geothermal area. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:897-905.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 167. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1-3.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Calidithermus roseus (Ming et al. 2016) Raposo et al. 2019

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Calidithermus roseus (Ming et al. 2016) Raposo et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Meiothermus roseus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Meiothermus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996

Assigned by: Ming H, Duan YY, Guo QQ, Yin YR, Zhou EM, Liu L, Li S, Nie GX, Li WJ. Meiothermus roseus sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a geothermal area. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:897-905.

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Record number: 793697