Fervidobacterium gondwanense is a species of thermophilic anaerobic bacteria. It is non-sporulating, motile, gram-negative, and rod-shaped. F. godwanense was isolated in Great Artesian basin in Australia from non-volcanically heated geothermal waters.
Fervidobacterium godwanense grows best at temperatures from 65 °C to 68 °C and does not grow at all below 44 °Celsius. F. godwanense habitat are volcanic marine or terrestrial hotsprings. This species can also live in human-made places such as hot water storage tanks.
References
Further reading Ravot, Gilles, et al. "L-Alanine production from glucose fermentation by hyperthermophilic members of the domains Bacteria and Archaea: a remnant of an ancestral metabolism?." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.7 (1996): 2657–2659.
External links Type strain of Fervidobacterium gondwanense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase