Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.172

Name

Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003

Taxonomic Rank

class

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
phylum	Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001

Members

order	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
order	Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008
order	Methanoflorentales Woodcroft et al. 2018
order	Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
order	Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this class 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 Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003

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 class Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.172.

Source File

10.1601/tx.172.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

References

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Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Taxonomic outline of the Procaryotes. In: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG (eds), Taxonomic Outline of the Procaryotes, Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition. Release 4.0, Fourth Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003, p. 1-39.
Akinyemi TS, Shao N, Whitman WB. Methanotrichales ord. nov. In: Professor William B. Whitman (ed), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, First Edition, Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2015.
Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65571-0 [PubMed].