Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.227

Name

Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

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	Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Members

genus	Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994
genus	Halomethanococcus Yu and Kawamura 1988
genus	Methanimicrococcus corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000
genus	Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon et al. 2014
genus	Methanohalobium Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988
genus	Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014
genus	Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983
genus	Methanomethylovorans Lomans et al. 2004
genus	Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002

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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

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 Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.227.

Source File

10.1601/tx.227.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

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Wildgruber G, Thomm M, König H, Ober K, Ricchinto P, Stetter KO. Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch Microbiol 1982; 132:31-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690813.
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