Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2419

Name

Methylocaldum Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi 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	Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Members

species	Methylocaldum szegediense Bodrossy et al. 1998
species	Methylocaldum gracile (ex Romanovskaya et al. 1978) Bodrossy et al. 1998
species	Methylocaldum marinum Takeuchi et al. 2014
species	Methylocaldum tepidum Bodrossy et al. 1998

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Methylocaldum Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi 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 Methylocaldum Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2419.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2419.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 6, 2014.

References

Takeuchi M, Kamagata Y, Oshima K, Hanada S, Tamaki H, Marumo K, Maeda H, Nedachi M, Hattori M, Iwasaki W, Sakata S. Methylocaldum marinum sp. nov., a thermotolerant methane-oxidizing bacterium isolated from marine sediments, and emended description of the genus Methylocaldum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3240-3246. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.063503-0 [PubMed].
Bodrossy L, Holmes EM, Holmes AJ, Kovács KL, Murrell JC. Analysis of 16S rRNA and methane monooxygenase gene sequences reveals a novel group of thermotolerant and thermophilic methanotrophs, Methylocaldum gen. nov. Arch Microbiol 1997; 168:493-503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050527 [PubMed].