Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14434

Name

Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003

Members

family	Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008
family	Methanoflorentaceae Mondav et al. 2014

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order 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 Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003
order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008

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 order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14434.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14434.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 18, 2019.

References

Mondav R, Woodcroft BJ, Kim E-H, McCalley CK, Hodgkins SB, Crill PM, Chanton J, Hurst GB, VerBerkmoes NC, Saleska SR, Hugenholtz P, Rich VI, Tyson GW. Discovery of a novel methanogen prevalent in thawing permafrost. Nat Commun 2014; 5:3212-3212. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4212 [PubMed].
Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65571-0 [PubMed].