General Information: Isolation: Upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor of a sugar refinery in Netherlands; Country: Netherlands; Temp: Thermophile; Temp: 55C; Habitat: Sludge. A strictly anaerobic, motile, non-spore-forming, thermophilic Gram-negative bacterium. Thermanaerovibrio acidaminovorans formerly Selenomonas acidaminovorans, can be isolated from methanogenic sludge and is able to ferment amino acids and carbohydrates.