Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.191
Name
 Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005
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
Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1990
(sic) Corder et al. 1988
Ollivier et al. 1985
Ollivier et al. 1986
Franzmann et al. 1997
Harris et al. 1996
Zellner et al. 1990
Chong et al. 2003
Romesser et al. 1981
Widdel et al. 1989
Zabel et al. 1986
Rivard and Smith 1982 emend. Zabel et al. 1985
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
  Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005

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 Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.191.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

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