Isolated from a sample of wet sediments collected from the terrestrial hot spring at East Thermal Field, Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia (N54 deg 29 min 59 sec E160 deg 00 min 49 sec, elevation 659 m) in August 2015.
Thermodesulfovibrio autotrophicus sp. nov., the first autotrophic representative of the widespread sulfate-reducing genus Thermodesulfovibrio, and Thermodesulfovibrio obliviosus sp. nov. that has lost this ability.