Fusibacter

Fusibacter is a genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacillota. Species are most well known from technical environments, Fusibacter fontis being the first described species of this genus isolated from a natural environment. The reported members of this genus are fermentative and halotolerant anaerobes. Moreover, these species share sulfur-reducing features capable of generating sulfide starting from elemental sulfur or thiosulfate sources.

Fusibacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Fusibacter Ravot et al. 1999[1]
Type species
Fusibacter paucivorans Ravot et al. 1999
Species[2]
F. bizertensis F. ferrireducens F. fontis F. paucivorans F. tunisiensis

The first draft genome of a strain of Fusibacter recovered from a saline environment in Northern Chile has been reported.^[3]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[4]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[5][6][7]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[8][9][10]
Fusibacter F. paucivorans Ravot et al. 1999 F. bizertensis Smii et al. 2015 F. fontis Fadhlaoui et al. 2015 F. ferrireducens Qiu et al. 2021 F. tunisiensis Ben Hania et al. 2012	Fusibacter F. ferrireducens F. paucivorans F. bizertensis F. tunisiensis