Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.251
Name
König and Stetter 1983
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
Members
König and Stetter 1983
Kadam et al. 1994
Wu and Lai 2015
Shen et al. 2020
(Liu et al. 1990) Boone 2002
Mochimaru et al. 2009
Chen et al. 2018
Stetter and König 1989 emend. Ni and Boone 1991
Oremland and Boone 1994
Stetter and König 1989 emend. Kadam and Boone 1995
Doerfert et al. 2009
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.

  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  Boone 2002
  Boone et al. 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
  König and Stetter 1983

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 Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.251.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References


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