Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.1581
Name
 Patt et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Alessa et al. 2021
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Members
Patt et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Gallego et al. 2006
Weon et al. 2008
Bijlani et al. 2021
Urakami et al. 1993
Gallego et al. 2005
Kato et al. 2008
Tani and Sahin 2013
Hoppe et al. 2012
Wellner et al. 2012
McDonald et al. 2001 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Jia et al. 2020
Park et al. 2018
Lee et al. 2013
Doronina et al. 2000
Kim et al. 2020
(Urakami and Komagata 1984) Bousfield and Green 1985 emend. Kato et al. 2008
Lee and Jeon 2018
Green et al. 1988
Tani et al. 2012
Idris et al. 2012
Madhaiyan et al. 2012 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Kato et al. 2008
Tani and Sahin 2013
Gallego et al. 2005
Chaudhry et al. 2016
Weon et al. 2008
Gallego et al. 2005
Aslam et al. 2007
Kato et al. 2008 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Knief et al. 2012
Doronina et al. 2002
Schauer et al. 2011
(Austin and Goodfellow 1979) Green and Bousfield 1983
Jourand et al. 2004 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Feng et al. 2020
Madhaiyan et al. 2007 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Chen et al. 2019
Tani et al. 2012
Kato et al. 2008
Madhaiyan et al. 2009 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Madhaiyan and Poonguzhali 2014 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Kang et al. 2007 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Anesti et al. 2006
Van Aken et al. 2004
Madhaiyan and Poonguzhali 2016
Madhaiyan and Poonguzhali 2014 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Green and Bousfield 1983 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Green et al. 1988 emend. Kato et al. 2008
(Heumann 1962) Green and Bousfield 1983
Wang et al. 2007
Ten et al. 2020
Cao et al. 2013
Doronina et al. 2002
Pascual et al. 2021
Kato et al. 2008
Veyisoglu et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Kim et al. 2020
Wood et al. 1999
Wellner et al. 2013
Wellner et al. 2013
Gallego et al. 2005
Green et al. 1988
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Patt et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Alessa et al. 2021

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 Methylobacterium Patt et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Alessa et al. 2021. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1581.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on April 18, 2022.

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