Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.27524

Name

Methanocalculus alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2015

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	Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 24457^T (=AMF2 =UNIQEM U859)

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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014
genus Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998
species Methanocalculus alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2015

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 Methanocalculus alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.27524.

Source File

10.1601/tx.27524.xml

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].