Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34273

Name

Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019

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	Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

species	Methanofervidicoccus abyssi Sakai et al. 2019

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 Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019

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 Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34273.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34273.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2019.

References

Sakai S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Ogawara M, Yanagawa K, Miyazaki J, Takai K. Methanofervidicoccus abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, isolated from a hydrothermal vent chimney in the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, the Caribbean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1225-1230. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003297 [PubMed].