syntrophomonas sapovorans syntrophomonas sapovorans syntrophomonas sapovorans is a bacterium. it is anaerobic, syntrophic, and fatty acid-oxidizing and obligately proton-reducing. its type strain is om. it has a doubling time of 40 hours. it is part of the family syntrophomonadaceae based on comparative small-subunit (ssu) rrna sequence analysis. this family currently contains three genera, syntrophomonas, syntrophospora, and thermosyntropha, as well as two closely related isolates, strains fsm2 and fss7. syntrophomonas sapovorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: clostridia order: eubacteriales family: syntrophomonadaceae genus: syntrophomonas species: s. sapovorans binomial name syntrophomonas sapovoransroy et al. 1987