Gelria (bacterium)

For other uses, see Gelria (disambiguation).

Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.

Gelria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:	Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:	Gelria Plugge et al. 2002
Type species
Gelria glutamica Plugge et al. 2002
Species
Gelria glutamica[1]

The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.

See also

• List of bacterial genera named after geographical names
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera