Moorella perchloratireducens

Moorella perchloratireducens is a thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-positive and endospore-forming bacterium from the genus Moorella, which has been isolated from an underground gas storage tank in Russia. One of the main characteristics of this microorganism is that it is able to completely reduce chlorate and perchlorate to chloride and oxygen.^[2]

Moorella perchloratireducens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:	Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:	Moorella
Species:	M. perchloratireducens
Binomial name
Moorella perchloratireducens Balk et al. 2008[1]
Type strain
An10, ATCC BAA-1531, JCM 14829