Name: Rhodothermus profundi Marteinsson et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pro.fun’di. L. neut. adj. profundum, the depths of the sea; L. gen. neut. n. profundi, of/from the depths of the sea

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 22212; JCM 15944; PRI 2902

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ624399 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Marteinsson VT, Bjornsdottir SH, Bienvenu N, Kristjansson JK, Birrien JL. Rhodothermus profundi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2729-2734.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:477-478.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• 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: Rhodothermus Alfredsson et al. 1995

Assigned by: Marteinsson VT, Bjornsdottir SH, Bienvenu N, Kristjansson JK, Birrien JL. Rhodothermus profundi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2729-2734.

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