Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14435

Name

Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008

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	Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008

Members

genus	Methanocella Sakai et al. 2008

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 Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003
order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008
family Methanocellaceae 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 family Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14435.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14435.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 12, 2017.

References

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].