Caldimicrobium rimae

Caldimicrobium rimae is an extremely thermophilic, strictly anaerobic and facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium from the genus of Caldimicrobium which has been isolated from the Treshchinnyi Spring from Uzon Caldera in Russia.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

Caldimicrobium rimae
Caldimicrobium rimae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Desulfobacterota
Class:	Thermodesulfobacteria
Order:	Thermodesulfobacteriales
Family:	Thermodesulfobacteriaceae
Genus:	Caldimicrobium
Species:	C. rimae
Binomial name
Caldimicrobium rimae Miroshnichenko et al. 2009[1]
Type strain
DS, DSM 19393, VKM B-2460[2]
Synonyms
Caldus autotrophicum[3]

Origins of taxonomical branch

Caldimicrobium rimae varies from its family of Thermodesulfobacteriaceae as it is not capable of oxidizing organic acids or alcohols and use sulfur as an electron receptor.^{[citation needed]}