Gelria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
Genus: | Gelria Plugge et al. 2002 |
Species | |
Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.