Sulfurovum lithotrophicum

Sulfurovum lithotrophicum is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is a sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the ε-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments. It is mesophilic and also oxidises thiosulfate. It is a gram-negative, non-motile and coccoid to oval-shaped bacterium. The type strain is 42BKT^T (=ATCC BAA-797^T =JCM 12117^T).^[1]

Sulfurovum lithotrophicum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Campylobacterota
Class:	"Campylobacteria"
Order:	Campylobacterales
Family:	Helicobacteraceae
Genus:	Sulfurovum
Species:	S. lithotrophicum
Binomial name
Sulfurovum lithotrophicum Inagaki et al. 2004