Sulfur-oxidizing bacterium.
Isolated from anoxic lake water of a stratified freshwater lake, Lake Mizugaki in Japan (35 deg 51 min 35 sec N, 138 deg 29 min 58 sec E).
Sulfurimicrobium lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from lake water, and review of the family Sulfuricellaceae to show that it is not a later synonym of Gallionellaceae.