Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.228
Name
 Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
Members
Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992
Sowers et al. 1986
von Klein et al. 2002 emend. Singh et al. 2005
Kern et al. 2016
(Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 1989
Shimizu et al. 2011
Simankova et al. 2002
(Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984
(Smit 1930) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lyimo et al. 2000
(Stetter and König 1989) Ni et al. 1994 emend. Elberson and Sowers 1997
Wagner et al. 2013
Ganzert et al. 2014
Shimizu et al. 2015
Zinder et al. 1985
Zhilina and Zavarzin 1987
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  Boone 2002
  Boone et al. 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
  Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994

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 Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.228.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

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