Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3632

Name

Pelobacter Schink and Pfennig 1983

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Desulfuromonaceae (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Pelobacter acidigallici Schink and Pfennig 1983
species	Pelobacter acetylenicus Schink 1986
species	Pelobacter carbinolicus Schink 1984
species	Pelobacter massiliensis Schnell et al. 1991
species	Pelobacter propionicus Schink 1984
species	Pelobacter seleniigenes Narasingarao and Häggblom 2007
species	Pelobacter venetianus Schink and Stieb 1984

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfuromonales (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfuromonaceae (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
genus Pelobacter Schink and Pfennig 1983

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Pelobacter Schink and Pfennig 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3632.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3632.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 9, 2009.

References

Schink B, Stieb M. Fermentative degradation of polyethylene glycol by a strictly anaerobic, gram-negative, nonsporeforming bacterium, Pelobacter venetianus sp. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 1983; 45:1905-1913. [PubMed].
Schink B. Fermentation of 2,3-butanediol by Pelobacter carbinolicus sp. nov. and Pelobacter propionicus sp. nov., and evidence for propionate formation from C2-compounds. Arch Microbiol 1984; 137:33-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425804.
Schink B. Fermentation of acetylene by an obligate anaerobe, Pelobacter acetylenicus sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1985; 142:295-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693407.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfuromonaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1006.
Schink B, Pfennig N. Fermentation of trihydrobenzenes by Pelobacter acidigallici gen. nov. sp. nov., a new strictly anaerobic, non-sporeforming bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1982; 133:195-201. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00415000.
Narasingarao P, Häggblom MM. Pelobacter seleniigenes sp. nov., a selenate-respiring bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1937-1942. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64980-0 [PubMed].
Schnell S, Brune A, Schink B. Degradation of hydroxyhydroquinone by the strictly anaerobic fermenting bacterium Pelobacter massiliensis sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1991; 155:511-516. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00244971.