pelotomaculum pelotomaculum pelotomaculum is a gram-positive strictly anaerobic, mesophilic, thermophilic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family of peptococcaceae. pelotomaculum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: clostridia order: clostridiales family: peptococcaceae genus: pelotomaculumimachi et al. 2002 type species pelotomaculum thermopropionicumimachi et al. 2002 species p. isophthalicicum p. propionicicum p. schinkii p. terephthalicicum p. thermopropionicum phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 p. isophthalicicum corrig. qiu et al. 2006 p. terephthalicicum corrig. qiu et al. 2006 p. schinkii de bok et al. 2005 cryptanaerobacter phenolicus p. propionicicum imachi et al. 2007 p. thermopropionicum imachi et al. 2002 desulfurispora thermophila pelotomaculum thermopropionicum pelotomaculum schinkii pelotomaculum propionicicum "ca. syntrophopropionicum ammoniitolerans"