tepidimonas ignava tepidimonas ignava tepidimonas ignava is a gram-negative, slightly thermophilic, motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum from the genus tepidimonas, which was isolated from the hot spring at são pedro do sul in central portugal. tepidimonas ignava scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: comamonadaceae genus: tepidimonas species: t. ignava binomial name tepidimonas ignavamoreira et al. 2000 type strain bcrc 17574, ccrc 17574, dsm 12034, sps-1037