Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.143

Name

Methanococci Boone 2002

Taxonomic Rank

class

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
phylum	Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001

Members

order	Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
order	Altiarchaeales (sic) Probst et al. 2014
order	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
order	Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this class 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 Methanococci Boone 2002

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 class Methanococci Boone 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.143.

Source File

10.1601/tx.143.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 11, 2020.

References

Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 211-355.
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
Probst AJ, Moissl-Eichinger C. "Altiarchaeales": uncultivated archaea from the subsurface. Life 2015; 5:1381-1395. https://doi.org/10.3390/life5021381 [PubMed].