diff --git a/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.cpp b/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 786ba9824b..0000000000
--- a/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-   LAMMPS - Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator
-   http://lammps.sandia.gov, Sandia National Laboratories
-   Steve Plimpton, sjplimp@sandia.gov
-
-   Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation.  Under the terms of Contract
-   DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
-   certain rights in this software.  This software is distributed under
-   the GNU General Public License.
-
-   See the README file in the top-level LAMMPS directory.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-   Contributing authors: Ray Shan (Sandia, tnshan@sandia.gov)
-   			 Oleg Sergeev (VNIIA, sergeev@vniia.ru)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-#include "lmptype.h"
-#include "stdlib.h"
-#include "math.h"
-#include "atom.h"
-#include "string.h"
-#include "fix_ave_atom.h"
-#include "fix_reaxc_species_omp.h"
-#include "domain.h"
-#include "update.h"
-#include "pair_reaxc_omp.h"
-#include "modify.h"
-#include "neighbor.h"
-#include "neigh_list.h"
-#include "neigh_request.h"
-#include "comm.h"
-#include "force.h"
-#include "compute.h"
-#include "input.h"
-#include "variable.h"
-#include "memory.h"
-#include "error.h"
-#include "reaxc_list.h"
-
-using namespace LAMMPS_NS;
-using namespace FixConst;
-
-/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-FixReaxCSpeciesOMP::FixReaxCSpeciesOMP(LAMMPS *lmp, int narg, char **arg) :
-  FixReaxCSpecies(lmp, narg, arg)
-{
-}
-
-/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-void FixReaxCSpeciesOMP::init()
-{
-  if (atom->tag_enable == 0)
-    error->all(FLERR,"Cannot use fix reax/c/species unless atoms have IDs");
-
-  reaxc = (PairReaxCOMP *) force->pair_match("reax/c/omp",1);
-  if (reaxc == NULL) error->all(FLERR,"Cannot use fix reax/c/species/omp without "
-		  "pair_style reax/c/omp");
-
-  reaxc->fixspecies_flag = 1;
-  nvalid = update->ntimestep+nfreq;
-
-  // check if this fix has been called twice
-  int count = 0;
-  for (int i = 0; i < modify->nfix; i++)
-    if (strcmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"reax/c/species/omp") == 0) count++;
-  if (count > 1 && comm->me == 0)
-    error->warning(FLERR,"More than one fix reax/c/species");
-
-  if (!setupflag) {
-    // create a compute to store properties
-    create_compute();
-
-    // create a fix to point to fix_ave_atom for averaging stored properties
-    create_fix();
-
-    setupflag = 1;
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.h b/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.h
deleted file mode 100644
index f2ef3fb266..0000000000
--- a/src/USER-OMP/fix_reaxc_species_omp.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-   LAMMPS - Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator
-   http://lammps.sandia.gov, Sandia National Laboratories
-   Steve Plimpton, sjplimp@sandia.gov
-
-   Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation.  Under the terms of Contract
-   DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
-   certain rights in this software.  This software is distributed under
-   the GNU General Public License.
-
-   See the README file in the top-level LAMMPS directory.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-#ifdef FIX_CLASS
-
-FixStyle(reax/c/species/omp,FixReaxCSpeciesOMP)
-
-#else
-
-#ifndef LMP_FIX_REAXC_SPECIES_OMP_H
-#define LMP_FIX_REAXC_SPECIES_OMP_H
-
-#include "pair_reaxc_omp.h"
-#include "fix_reaxc_species.h"
-
-#define BUFLEN 1000
-
-namespace LAMMPS_NS {
-
-  class FixReaxCSpeciesOMP : public FixReaxCSpecies {
-
-  public:
-    FixReaxCSpeciesOMP(class LAMMPS *, int, char **);
-    ~FixReaxCSpeciesOMP(){};
-    virtual void init();
-
-  private:
-    class PairReaxCOMP *reaxc;
-
-  };
-}
-
-#endif
-#endif