Table 1. Eco-physiological characteristics of members from genus Sulfurospirillum.

Species	Originated from	Metabolism	Reference
Sulfurospirillum deleyianum* (CP001816.1)	Anoxic mud from a forest pond	Sulfur reducing, dissimilatory nitrate reduction	[14,19–21]
Sulfurospirillum multivorans (CP007201.1)	Activated sludge	able to reduce tetrachloroethene to cis-dichloroethene	[2,17,21,22]
Sulfurospirillum arcachonense (JFBL00000000) (draft)	Oxidized marine surface sediment	microaerophilic sulfur-reducing	[23,24]
Sulfurospirillum barnesii (CP003333.1)	Selenate-contaminated freshwater marsh	able to reduce selenate to elemental selenium	[1,20,21]
Sulfurospirillum arsenophilum NBRC 109478 (draft) (PRJDB1374)	Arsenic-contaminated freshwater sediments	able to reduce arsenate to arsenite	[20,21]
Sulfurospirillum halorespirans	Anaerobic soil polluted with chlorinated aliphatic compounds	able to reduce tetrachloroethene to cis-dichloroethene	[1]
Sulfurospirillum cavolei strain Phe91	Underground crude oil storage cavity	facultatively anaerobic sulfur-reducing	[25]
Sulfurospirillum cavolei NBRC 109482 (draft) (BBQE00000000.1)	Petroleum contaminated groundwater	—	—
Sulfurospirillum sp. SCADC (draft) (JQGK00000000.1)	Methanogenic alkane degrading enrichment culture from an oil sands tailings	—	[16]
Sulfurospirillum strain Am-N (draft) (IMG object ID 2502171155)	Alvinella pompejana, 13°N East Pacific Rise	—	[26]
Sulfurospirillum sp. strain MES (S. cavolei MES) (draft) (JSEC00000000)	Metagenome of a microbial community enriched in an acetogenic microbial electrosynthesis system	—	[11–13]
Sulfurospirillum sp. strain UCH001 (AP014723.1)	Chloroethenes-contaminated groundwater in Japan.	—	[15]
Sulfurospirillum cavolei UCH003 (AP014724.1)	Chloroethenes-contaminated groundwater in Japan.	—	[15]

*S. deleyianum is the type species of the genus Sulfurospirillum. Bolded species have a complete or draft genome sequence available