''Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens'' is a

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. The Gram stain is ...

, iron-reducing, moderately

thermophilic A thermophile is a type of extremophile that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though some of them are bacteria and fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bact ...

, short rod-shaped, acidophilic and motile bacterium from the genus '' Aciditerrimonas'' which has been isolated from soil from a solfataric field in Ōwakudani in

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Type strain of ''Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Actinomycetota Bacteria described in 2011 Thermophiles {{Actinobacteria-stub