Name: Rhodoplanes tepidamans Hiraishi and Okamura 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: te.pid.a’mans. L. masc. adj. tepidus, moderately warm, lukewarm; L. pres. part. amans, loving; N.L. part. adj. tepidamans, loving warm conditions

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 49414; DSM 9987; NBRC 104267; TUT3520

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB087718 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hiraishi A, Okamura K. Proposal of Rhodoplanes tepidamans sp. nov. to accommodate the thermotolerant phototrophic bacterium previously referred to as 'Rhodoplanes (Rhodopseudomonas) cryptolactis'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1540-1545.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Rhodopseudomonas cryptolactis" Stadtwald-Demchick et al. 1990	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Rhodoplanes cryptolactis" Okamura et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Rhodoplanes Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Assigned by: Hiraishi A, Okamura K. Proposal of Rhodoplanes tepidamans sp. nov. to accommodate the thermotolerant phototrophic bacterium previously referred to as 'Rhodoplanes (Rhodopseudomonas) cryptolactis'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1540-1545.

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Record number: 795308