sporosalibacterium tautonense sporosalibacterium tautonense sporosalibacterium tautonense is a gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, thermotolerant, moderately halophilic, organotrophic and motile bacterium from the genus of sporosalibacterium which has been isolated from water from the tautona gold mine in south africa. sporosalibacterium tautonense scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: clostridia family: clostridiaceae genus: sporosalibacterium species: s. tautonense binomial name sporosalibacterium tautonensepodosokorskaya et al. 2017 type strain mro-4