tepidimonas thermarum tepidimonas thermarum tepidimonas thermarum is a gram-negative, strictly aerobic, oxidase- and catalase-positive, slightly thermophilic, rod-shaped, motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum from the genus tepidimonas, which was isolated from the elisenquelle in aachen. tepidimonas thermarum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: comamonadaceae genus: tepidimonas species: t. thermarum binomial name tepidimonas thermarumalbuquerque et al. 2007 type strain aa-1, cip 108777, lmg 23094