Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.139

Name

Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanothermus Stetter et al. 1982

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982

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 family Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.139.

Source File

10.1601/tx.139.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

List Editor. Validation List no. 85. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-3-685 [PubMed].