Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.204

Name

Methanolacinia Zellner et al. 1990 emend. Göker et al. 2014

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	Methanolacinia paynteri (Rivard et al. 1984) Zellner et al. 1990
species	Methanolacinia petrolearia (Ollivier et al. 1998) Göker et al. 2015

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 Methanolacinia Zellner et al. 1990 emend. Göker et al. 2014

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 Methanolacinia Zellner et al. 1990 emend. Göker et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.204.

Source File

10.1601/tx.204.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2016.

References

Göker M, Lu M, Fiebig A, Nolan M, Lapidus A, Tice H, Del Rio TG, Cheng J-F, Han C, Tapia R, Goodwin LA, Pitluck S, Liolios K, Mavromatis K, Pagani I, Ivanova N, Mikhailova N, Pati A, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Land M, Mayilraj S, Rohde M, Detter JC, Bunk B, Spring S, Wirth R, Woyke T, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Kyrpides NC, Klenk H-P. Genome sequence of the mud-dwelling archaeon Methanoplanus limicola type strain (DSM 2279), reclassification of Methanoplanus petrolearius as Methanolacinia petrolearia and emended descriptions of the genera Methanoplanus and Methanolacin. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:1076-1088. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.5138968 [PubMed].
Zellner G, Messner P, Kneifel H, Tindall BJ, Winter J, Stackebrandt E. Methanolacinia gen. nov., incorporating Methanomicrobium paynteri as Methanolacinia paynteri comb. nov. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1989; 35:185-202. https://doi.org/10.2323/jgam.35.185.