Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2428

Name

Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

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	Methylomonas methanica (ex Söhngen 1906) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984
species	Methylomonas albis Bussmann et al. 2022
species	Methylomonas aurantiaca Bowman et al. 1990
species	Methylomonas fluvii Bussmann et al. 2022
species	Methylomonas fodinarum Bowman et al. 1990
species	Methylomonas koyamae Ogiso et al. 2012
species	Methylomonas lenta Hoefman et al. 2014
species	Methylomonas paludis Danilova et al. 2013
species	Methylomonas pelagica Sieburth et al. 1988
species	Methylomonas rubra Romanovskaya et al. 2006
species	Methylomonas scandinavica Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2000
species	Methylomonas sp. None 2015

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 Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

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 Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2428.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2428.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2021.

References

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No reference is available 2015
Whittenbury R, Krieg NR. Family IV. Methylococcaceae fam. nov. In: Holt JG (ed), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, First Edition, Volume 1, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 256-261.