Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus Podosokorskaya, Olga A. and Merkel, Alexander Y. and Gavrilov, Sergey N. and Fedoseev, Igor and Heerden, Esta van and Cason, Errol D. and Novikov, Andrey A. and Kolganova, Tatyana V. and Korzhenkov, Aleksei A. and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Elizaveta A. and Kublanov, Ilya V.,, 66, 3189-3194 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001166, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel aerotolerant anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, organotrophic bacterium, strain MBL-TLPT, was isolated from a sample of microbial mat, developed under the flow of subsurface water in TauTona gold mine, South Africa. Cells of the new isolate were flagellated, spore-forming rods, 0.25–0.5 µm in width and 3–15 µm in length. Strain MBL-TLPT grew in the temperature range from 25 to 58 °C, pH range from 5.6 to 8.8 and at NaCl concentration from 0 to 85 g l−1. The isolate was able to ferment yeast extract and mono-, oligo- and polysaccharides, including starch and xanthan gum. The G+C content of the DNA was 35 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences of strain MBL-TLPT and relatives showed its affiliation to the genus Tepidibacillus . Tepidibacillus fermentans STGHT was its closest relative (97.1 % identity of 16S rRNA gene sequences). Based on phylogenetic analysis and the physiological properties of the novel isolate, we propose a novel species, Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., with MBL-TLPT(=DSM 28123T=VKM В-2949T) as the type strain., language=, type=