rhodothermales rhodothermales the rhodothermales are an order of bacteria. rhodothermales scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: rhodothermotamunoz et al. 2021 class: rhodothermiamunoz et al. 2017 order: rhodothermalesmunoz et al. 2017 families rhodothermaceae rubricoccaceae salinibacteraceae roseithermus synonyms rhodothermota: "rhodothermota" garcía-lópez et al. 2019 "rhodothermaeota" munoz et al. 2016 rhodothermales: "rhodothermales" munoz et al. 2016 phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi). 16s rrna based ltp_12_2021 gtdb 07-rs207 by genome taxonomy database rhodothermaceae ludwig et al. 2012 roseithermus park et al. 2019 rubricoccaceae munoz et al. 2016 salinibacteraceae munoz et al. 2016 rubricoccaceae rhodothermaceae salinibacteraceae (incl. salisaetaceae park et al. 2019)