Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.218

Name

Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhou 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	Methanospirillaceae Boone et al. 2002

Members

species	Methanospirillum hungatii (sic) Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010
species	Methanospirillum lacunae Iino et al. 2010
species	Methanospirillum psychrodurum Zhou et al. 2014
species	Methanospirillum stamsii Parshina et al. 2014

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 Methanospirillaceae Boone et al. 2002
genus Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhou 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 Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhou et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.218.

Source File

10.1601/tx.218.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

Parshina SN, Ermakova AV, Bomberg M, Detkova EN. Methanospirillum stamsii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, hydrogenotrophic, methanogenic archaeon isolated from an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed bioreactor operated at low temperature. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:180-186. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.056218-0 [PubMed].
Iino T, Mori K, Suzuki K-i. Methanospirillum lacunae sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon isolated from a puddly soil, and emended descriptions of the genus Methanospirillum and Methanospirillum hungatei. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2563-2566. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020131-0 [PubMed].
Ferry JG, Smith PH, Wolfe RS. Methanospirillum, a new genus of methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of Methanospirillum hungatii sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1974; 24:465-469. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-24-4-465.
Zhou L, Liu X, Dong X. Methanospirillum psychrodurum sp. nov., isolated from wetland soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:638-641. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.057299-0 [PubMed].
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Family III. Methanospirillaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 264.