Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.108

Names

Methanobacterium thermaggregans corrig. Blotevogel and Fischer 1988, Methanobacterium thermoaggregans (sic) Blotevogel and Fischer 1988

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 3266^T (=ATCC 43168)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Methanobacterium thermaggregans corrig. Blotevogel and Fischer 1988

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.19749	OCM 141

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanobacterium thermaggregans corrig. Blotevogel and Fischer 1988 and Methanobacterium thermoaggregans (sic) Blotevogel and Fischer 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.108.

Source File

10.1601/tx.108.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 29, 2010.

References

Blotevogel KH, Fischer U. Isolation and characterization of a new thermophilic and autotrophic methane producing bacterium: Methanobacterium thermoaggregans spec. nov. Arch Microbiol 1985; 142:218-222. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693393.