{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Pelobacter | authority = Schink and Pfennig, 1983<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/18|title=Pelobacter|website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref> | type_species = ''Pelobacter acidigallici'' | type_species_authority = Schink and Pfennig, 1983 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''P. acetylenicus'' * ''P. acidigallici'' * ''P. carbinolicus'' * ''P. masseliensis'' * ''P. propionicus'' * ''P. seleniigenes'' * ''P. venetianus'' }}

'''''Pelobacter''''' (gr pelos : mud) is a bacterial genus in the order Desulfuromonadales. The cells are rod-shaped with rounded ends and occur in single, pairs or chains. They have a fermentative metabolism.<ref name=BergeyAlpha>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}}.</ref>

==See also== * List of bacterial orders * List of bacteria genera

==References== {{Reflist}} * 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== {{Wikispecies}} *[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/pelobacter Pelobacter] J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

{{Bacteria classification|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q7161632}} Category:Pelobacteraceae Category:Bacteria genera {{Thermodesulfobacteriota-stub}}