Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.203

Name

Methanogenium thermophilicum Rivard and Smith 1982 emend. Zabel et al. 1985

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005

Type Strain

representative organism

CR-1^T (=ATCC 33837 =DSM 2373)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005
species Methanogenium thermophilicum Rivard and Smith 1982 emend. Zabel et al. 1985

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 species Methanogenium thermophilicum Rivard and Smith 1982 emend. Zabel et al. 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.203.

Source File

10.1601/tx.203.xml

References

Rivard CJ, Smith PH. Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic marine methanogenic bacterium: Methanogenium thermophilicum sp. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:430-436. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-32-4-430.