erythrobacter tepidarius erythrobacter tepidarius "erythrobacter tepidarius" is a moderately thermophilic and non-motile bacteria from the genus of erythrobacter which has been isolated from a hot spring in usami in japan. "erythrobacter tepidarius" scientific classification kingdom: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: erythrobacter species: "e. tepidarius" binomial name "erythrobacter tepidarius"(hanada et al. 1997) xu et al. 2020 type strain dsm 10594, ot3 synonyms "porphyrobacter tepidarius" hanada et al. 1997