sp. nov. a new member of the lineage isolated from sediment of a neutral hot spring and reclassification of (Ramaprasad . 2018) as a later heterotypic synonym of (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980).

A polyphasic study was designed to determine the taxonomic status of isolate CSLK01-03, which was recovered from an Indonesian neutral hot spring and provisionally assigned to the genus . The isolate was found to have chemotaxonomic, cultural and morphological properties typical of rhodococci. It has a rod-coccus lifecycle and grows from 10 to 39 °C, from pH 6.