Pelobacteraceae

{{Short description|Family of bacteria}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| taxon = Pelobacteraceae

| authority = Waite et al. 2020{{cite journal | vauthors = Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, ((Hugenholtz P.)) | year = 2020 | title = Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities | journal = Int J Syst Evol Microbiol | volume = 70 | issue = 11 | pages = 5972–6016 | doi = 10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 | pmid = 33151140| doi-access = free }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Pelobacter

}}

The "Pelobacteraceae" are a bacterial family in the order Desulfuromonadales.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)] The species are anaerobic and have a fermentative metabolism.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}}