Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25029

Name

Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanocalculaceae Zhilina 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 family Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25029.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25029.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 25, 2017.

References

Zhilina TN, Zavarzina DG, Kevbrin VV, Kolganova TV. Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new Alkaliphilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Archaeon from a Soda Lake, and Proposal of the New Family Methanocalculaceae. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 2013; 82:681-690. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261713060131.