Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.210

Name

Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989

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	Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989

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 Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989

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 Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.210.

Source File

10.1601/tx.210.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order II. Methanomicrobiales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 246.