Pelobacter

Pelobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Deltaproteobacteria
Order:	Desulfuromonadales
Family:	Pelobacteraceae
Genus:	Pelobacter; and Pfennig, 1983
Type species
	Pelobacter acidigallici; and Pfennig, 1983
Species
	Pelobacter carbinolicus; Pelobacter acetylenicus; Pelobacter propionicus; Pelobacter acidigallici; Pelobacter venetianus; ; ; Pelobacter acetylenicus

Pelobacter (gr pelos : mud) is a bacterial genus in the family Pelobacteraceae. The cells are rod-shaped with rounded ends and occur in single, pairs or chains. They have a fermentative metabolism.^[2]

References[]

^ "Pelobacter". www.uniprot.org.
^ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.

Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt (Hrsg.) The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria. Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria ISBN 978-0-387-33493-6

External links[]

Pelobacter J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

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[1] "Pelobacter". www.uniprot.org.

[BergeyAlpha-2] Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.

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