Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.178

Name

Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990

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	Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

species	Methanoculleus bourgense (sic) (Ollivier et al. 1986) Maestrojuán et al. 1990 emend. Asakawa and Nagaoka 2003
species	Methanoculleus chikugoensis Dianou et al. 2001
species	Methanoculleus horonobensis Shimizu et al. 2013
species	Methanoculleus hydrogenitrophicus Tian et al. 2010
species	Methanoculleus marisnigri (Romesser et al. 1981) Maestrojuán et al. 1990
species	Methanoculleus oldenburgensis Blotevogel et al. 1998
species	Methanoculleus olentangyi (Corder et al. 1988) Maestrojuán et al. 1990
species	Methanoculleus palmolei Zellner et al. 1998
species	Methanoculleus receptaculi Cheng et al. 2008
species	Methanoculleus sediminis Chen et al. 2015
species	Methanoculleus submarinus Mikucki et al. 2003
species	Methanoculleus taiwanensis Weng et al. 2015
species	Methanoculleus thermohydrogenotrophicum (sic) Kougias et al. 2017
species	Methanoculleus thermophilicus (sic) (Rivard and Smith 1982) Maestrojuán et al. 1990 emend. Spring et al. 2005

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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990

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 Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.178.

Source File

10.1601/tx.178.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 13, 2019.

References

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