''Fusibacter paucivorans'' is a

thiosulfate Thiosulfate ( IUPAC-recommended spelling; sometimes thiosulphate in British English) is an oxyanion of sulfur with the chemical formula . Thiosulfate also refers to the compounds containing this anion, which are the salts of thiosulfuric acid, ...

-reducing bacterium from the family

Peptostreptococcaceae The Peptostreptococcaceae are a family of Gram-positive bacteria in the class Clostridia. Several members of the Peptostreptococcaceae are well known inhabitants of the digestive tract. Microbiome studies of animal feces have corroborated this ...

. It is the most studied species of the genus ''

Fusibacter ''Fusibacter'' is a genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacillota The Bacillota (synonym Firmicutes) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have gram-positive cell wall structure. The renaming of phyla such as Firmicutes in 2021 remains cont ...

'', isolated from oil-producing wells.

References

Bacteria described in 1999 Peptostreptococcaceae {{Clostridia-stub