Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25882

Name

Methanosarcina spelaei Ganzert et al. 2014

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	Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994

Type Strain

representative organism

MC-15^T (=DSM 26047 =JCM 18469)

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 Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994
species Methanosarcina spelaei Ganzert 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 species Methanosarcina spelaei Ganzert et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25882.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25882.xml

References

Ganzert L, Schirmack J, Alawi M, Mangelsdorf K, Sand W, Hillebrand-Voiculescu A, Wagner D. Methanosarcina spelaei sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon isolated from a floating biofilm of a subsurface sulphurous lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3478-3484. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.064956-0 [PubMed].