Moorella thermoautotrophica
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| Moorella thermoautotrophica | |
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| Species: | M. thermoautotrophica |
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| Moorella thermoautotrophica Collins et al. 1994 | |
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.[1][2]
