Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.240

Name

Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon 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	Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

Members

species	Methanococcoides methylutens Sowers and Ferry 1985
species	Methanococcoides alaskense Singh et al. 2005
species	Methanococcoides burtonii Franzmann et al. 1993
species	Methanococcoides orientis Liang et al. 2022
species	Methanococcoides vulcani L'Haridon 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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
genus Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon 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 Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.240.

Source File

10.1601/tx.240.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 1, 2022.

References

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