Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum

Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum is a species of autotrophic, sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is the type species of its genus, being thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped, with type strain BSA^T (= DSM 11699^T).^[1]

Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Aquificota
Class:	Aquificae
Order:	Aquificales
Family:	Desulfurobacteriaceae
Genus:	Desulfurobacterium
Species:	Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum L'Haridon et al. 1998