Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.262

Name

Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002

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	Methanosalsum zhilinae (Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone and Baker 2002
species	Methanosalsum natronophilum Sorokin et al. 2015

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 Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002

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 Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.262.

Source File

10.1601/tx.262.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 3, 2015.

References

Sorokin DY, Abbas B, Merkel AY, Rijpstra WIC, Damsté JSS, Sukhacheva MV, van Loosdrecht MCM. Methanosalsum natronophilum sp. nov., and Methanocalculus alkaliphilus sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic methanogens from hypersaline soda lakes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3739-3745. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000488 [PubMed].
Boone DR, Baker CC. Genus VI. Methanosalsum gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 287-289.