Mesophilic, obligately anaerobic, facultatively sulphur-reducing bacterium.
Isolated from a chimney structure collected at the Iheya North hydrothermal field at a depth of 957 m, in the Mid-Okinawa Trough (27 deg 47 min 28 sec N 126 deg 53 min 47 sec E) in 2018.
Miyazaki U, Tame A, Miyazaki J, Takai K, Sawayama S, Kitajima M, Okamoto A, Nakagawa S
Title
Haliovirga abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic fermentative bacterium isolated from the Iheya North hydrothermal field, and proposal of Haliovirgaceae fam. nov.