Moderately thermoacidophilic anaerobe.
Capable of growing with H2 or formate by respiration of sulfate or thiosulfate.
Isolated from geothermally heated soil sampled at the Oil Site, Uzon Caldera, Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia (54 deg 30.023 min N 160 deg 00.088 min E, elevation 654 m) in August 2014. [PMID:
27995866]