Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.247

Name

Methanohalophilus halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991

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	Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014

Type Strain

representative organism

OCM 160^T (=DSM 3094 =INMI Z-7982)

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 Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014
species Methanohalophilus halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991

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 Methanohalophilus halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.247.

Source File

10.1601/tx.247.xml

References

Wilharm T, Zhilina TN, Hummel P. DNA-DNA hybridization of methylotrophic halophilic methanogenic bacteria and transfer of Methanococcus halophilus (VP) to the genus Methanohalophilus as Methanohalophilus halophilus comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:558-562. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-4-558.