rhodoplanes rhodoplanes rhodoplanes is a phototrophic genus of bacteria. rhodoplanes produces hopanoids like diplopterol, tetrahymanol, 2-methyldiplopterol, 2-methyltetrahymanol, bacteriohopanetetrol, bacteriohopaneaminotriol and carotenoids like spirilloxanthin, rhodopin, anhydrorhodovibrin, 1,1′-dihydroxylycopene and 3,4,3′,4′-tetrahydrospirilloxanthin rhodoplanes scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: nitrobacteraceae genus: rhodoplaneshiraishi and ueda 1994 type species rhodoplanes roseus(janssen and harfoot 1991) hiraishi and ueda 1994 species rhodoplanes azumiensis hiraishi 2017 "rhodoplanes cryptolactis" okamura et al. 2007 rhodoplanes elegans hiraishi and ueda 1994 rhodoplanes oryzae srinivas et al. 2014 rhodoplanes piscinae chakravarthy et al. 2012 rhodoplanes pokkaliisoli lakshmi et al. 2009 rhodoplanes roseus (janssen and harfoot 1991) hiraishi and ueda 1994 rhodoplanes serenus okamura et al. 2009 rhodoplanes tepidamans hiraishi and okamura 2017 rhodoplanes tepidicaeni hiraishi 2017