Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.160
Name
Whitman 2002
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Members
(Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002
Takai et al. 2002
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.

  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  Boone 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Whitman 2002

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 Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.160.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References


  1. Takai K, Inoue A, Horikoshi K. Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1089-1095. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02106-0 [PubMed].
  2. Whitman WB. Genus II. Methanothermococcus gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 241-242.