Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.232

Name

Methanosarcina frisia (Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 1989

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994

Type Strain

representative organism

C 16^T (=DSM 3318 =ATCC 43340)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
genus Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994
species Methanosarcina frisia (Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 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 species Methanosarcina frisia (Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.232.

Source File

10.1601/tx.232.xml

References

Blotevogel KH, Fischer U. Transfer of Methanococcus frisius to the genus Methanosarcina as Methanosarcina frisia comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:91-92. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-1-91.