Acidiferrobacter

Acidiferrobacter
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Acidiferrobacterales
Family: Acidiferrobacteraceae
Genus: Acidiferrobacter
Hallberg et al. 2011
Type species
Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans
Species

A. thiooxydans

Acidiferrobacter is an acidophilic, thermotolerant, and facultatively anaerobic genus of bacteria with one known species (Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans). This genera has been included in new order called Acidiferrobacterales in 2015. A. thiooxydans has been isolated from refuse from a coal mine from Calloway County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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