Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1452

Name

Methylocapsa Dedysh et al. 2002 emend. Dunfield et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Beijerinckiaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Methylocapsa acidiphila Dedysh et al. 2002 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Methylocapsa aurea Dunfield et al. 2010
species	Methylocapsa palsarum Dedysh et al. 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Beijerinckiaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Methylocapsa Dedysh et al. 2002 emend. Dunfield et al. 2010

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 genus Methylocapsa Dedysh et al. 2002 emend. Dunfield et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1452.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1452.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VI. Beijerinckiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 422.
Dedysh SN, Khmelenina VN, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Semrau JD, Liesack W, Tiedje JM. Methylocapsa acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium from Sphagnum bog. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:251-261. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-251 [PubMed].
Dunfield PF, Belova SE, Vorob'ev AV, Cornish SL, Dedysh SN. Methylocapsa aurea sp. nov., a facultative methanotroph possessing a particulate methane monooxygenase, and emended description of the genus Methylocapsa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2659-2664. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020149-0 [PubMed].
Dedysh SN, Didriksen A, Danilova OV, Belova SE, Liebner S, Svenning MM. Methylocapsa palsarum sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from a subArctic discontinuous permafrost ecosystem. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3618-3624. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000465 [PubMed].