Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.145

Name

Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

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	Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanococcus Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984
genus	Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019
genus	Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002

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 Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.145.

Source File

10.1601/tx.145.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

Sakai S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Ogawara M, Yanagawa K, Miyazaki J, Takai K. Methanofervidicoccus abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, isolated from a hydrothermal vent chimney in the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, the Caribbean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1225-1230. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003297 [PubMed].
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralbl Bakteriol Parasitenkd Infektionskr Hyg 1936; 94:369-403.