Pelomonas saccharophila

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| taxon = Pelomonas saccharophila

| authority = (Doudoroff 1940)
Xie and Yokota 2005

| synonyms = Pseudomonas saccharophila Doudoroff 1940

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Pelomonas saccharophila is a Gram-negative soil bacterium. It was originally named Pseudomonas saccharophila in 1940, but was reclassified in 2005 to the newly created genus, Pelomonas. The original strain was isolated from mud.{{cite journal |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63733-0|pmid=16280506|title=Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. Nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. And Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. Nov., respectively|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=55|issue=6|pages=2419–2425|year=2005|last1=Xie|first1=C.-H.|last2=Yokota|first2=A.|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.65149-0|pmid=17978231|title=Description of Pelomonas aquatica sp. nov. And Pelomonas puraquae sp. nov., isolated from industrial and haemodialysis water|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=57|issue=11|pages=2629–2635|year=2007|last1=Gomila|first1=M.|last2=Bowien|first2=B.|last3=Falsen|first3=E.|last4=Moore|first4=E. R. B.|last5=Lalucat|first5=J.|doi-access=}}