Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.174

Name

Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus	Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990
genus	Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999
genus	Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005
genus	Methanolacinia Zellner et al. 1990 emend. Göker et al. 2014

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.174.

Source File

10.1601/tx.174.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

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Zellner G, Boone DR, Keswani J, Whitman WB, Woese CR, Hagelstein A, Tindall BJ, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Methanogenium tationis and Methanogenium liminatans as Methanofollis tationis gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methanofollis liminatans comb. nov. and description of a new strain of Methanofollis liminatans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:247-255. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-1-247 [PubMed].
Maestrojuán GM, Boone DR, Xun L, Mah RA, Zhang L. Transfer of Methanogenium bourgense, Methanogenium marisnigri, Methanogenium olentangyi, and Methanogenium thermophilicum to the genus Methanoculleus gen. nov., emendation of Methanoculleus marisnigri and Methanogenium, and description of new strains of Methanoculleus bourgense and Methanoculleus marisnigri. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:117-122. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-117.
Romesser JA, Wolfe RS, Mayer F, Spiess E, Walther-Mauruschat A. Methanogenium, a new genus of marine methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of Methanogenium cariaci sp. nov. and Methanogenium marisnigri sp. nov. Arch Mikrobiol 1979; 121:147-153.
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
Wildgruber G, Thomm M, König H, Ober K, Ricchinto P, Stetter KO. Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch Microbiol 1982; 132:31-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690813.