Rhodoplanes

Rhodoplanes
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Nitrobacteraceae
Genus: Rhodoplanes
Hiraishi and Ueda 1994
Type species
Rhodoplanes roseus
(Janssen and Harfoot 1991) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994
Species

Rhodoplanes is a phototrophic genus of bacteria. Rhodoplanes produces hopanoids such as diplopterol, tetrahymanol, 2-methyldiplopterol, 2-methyltetrahymanol, bacteriohopanetetrol, bacteriohopaneaminotriol and carotenoids like spirilloxanthin, rhodopin, anhydrorhodovibrin, 1,1′-dihydroxylycopene and 3,4,3′,4′-tetrahydrospirilloxanthin