Acetobacterium carbinolicum

Acetobacterium carbinolicum is a homoacetogenic, strictly anaerobic bacterium that oxidises primary aliphatic alcohols.
These Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped bacteria grow at optimal temperatures of about 30°C, but some subspecies are also psychrotolerant, being able to grow at a minimum temperature of 2°C, as the microorganisms belonging to the subspecies "A. carbinolicum kysingense", which have been isolated from fine sand and mud sedimented in a brackish fjord in Jutland, Denmark, where concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water are up to 4.3%. 