Moorella thermoautotrophica Collins et al., 1994
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Thermoanaerobacterales
- family
- Thermoanaerobacteraceae
- genus
- Moorella
- species
- Moorella thermoautotrophica
Abstract
Moorella thermoautotrophica, previously known as Clostridium thermoautotrophicum, is a rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacterium belonging to the phylum Bacillota. It is thermophilic, strictly anaerobic and acetogenic, and was isolated from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park USA.