Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2403

Name

Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Type Strain

representative organism

NCIMB 11853^T (=ATCC 19069 =Texas =ACM 1292)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Methylococcales Bowman 2005
family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993
species Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15973	TRMC MCBATH (=MC =Bath =ACM 3302 =IMET10544 =NCIMB 11132 =ATCC 33009)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2403.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2403.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 29, 2010.

References

Foster JW, Davis RH. A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria. J Bacteriol 1966; 91:1924-1931. [PubMed].