Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.170

Name

Methanotorris Whitman 2002

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	Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Members

species	Methanotorris igneus (Burggraf et al. 1990) Whitman 2002
species	Methanotorris formicicus Takai et al. 2004

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002
genus Methanotorris 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 Methanotorris Whitman 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.170.

Source File

10.1601/tx.170.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Whitman WB. Genus II. Methanotorris 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. 245-246.
Takai K, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Methanotorris formicicus sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1095-1100. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02887-0 [PubMed].