Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.264

Name

Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002

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	Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Members

genus	Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990
genus	Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983

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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 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 family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.264.

Source File

10.1601/tx.264.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 11, 2017.

References

Huser BA, Wuhrmann K, Zehnder AJB. Methanothrix soehngenii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new acetophilic, non-hydrogen oxidizing methane bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1982; 132:1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690808.
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 268.