| Thermosinus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Negativicutes |
| Order: | Selenomonadales |
| Family: | Sporomusaceae |
| Genus: | Thermosinus Sokolova et al. 2004 |
| Species: | T. carboxydivorans |
| Binomial name | |
| Thermosinus carboxydivorans Sokolova et al. 2004 | |
Thermosinus is a Gram-negative bacteria genus from the family Sporomusaceae. The only species is Thermosinus carboxydivorans.
Thermosinus carboxydivorans is an anaerobic, thermophilic, Gram-negative, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium. It is facultatively carboxydotrophic, curved, motile, rod-shaped, with a length of 2.6–3 μm, a width of about 0.5 μm and lateral flagellation. Its type strain is Nor1T (=DSM 14886T =VKM B-2281T).