Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.260

Names

Methanimicrococcus corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000, Methanomicrococcus (sic) Sprenger et al. 2000

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	Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

Members

species	Methanimicrococcus blatticola corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Methanimicrococcus corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000

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 Methanimicrococcus corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000 and Methanomicrococcus (sic) Sprenger et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.260.

Source File

10.1601/tx.260.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Sprenger WW, van Belzen MC, Rosenberg J, Hackstein JH, Keltjens JT. Methanomicrococcus blatticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanol- and methylamine-reducing methanogen from the hindgut of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1989-1999. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-6-1989 [PubMed].