Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10241

Name

Meganema Thomsen et al. 2006

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Meganema perideroedes Thomsen et al. 2006

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Meganema Thomsen et al. 2006

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Meganema Thomsen et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10241.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10241.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 19, 2017.

References

Thomsen TR, Blackall LL, de Muro MA, Nielsen JL, Nielsen PH. Meganema perideroedes gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous alphaproteobacterium from activated sludge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1865-1868. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02916-0 [PubMed].
McIlroy SJ, Lapidus A, Thomsen TR, Han J, Haynes M, Lobos E, Huntemann M, Pati A, Ivanova NN, Markowitz V, Verbarg S, Woyke T, Klenk H-P, Kyrpides N, Nielsen PH. High quality draft genome sequence of Meganema perideroedes str. Gr1T and a proposal for its reclassification to the family Meganemaceae fam. nov. Stand Genomic Sci 2015; 10:1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-015-0013-1 [PubMed].
Kelly DP, McDonald IR, Wood AP. The Family Methylobacteriaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes: Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria, Fourth Edition, Volume 1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 2014, p. 313-340.