Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34274

Name

Methanofervidicoccus abyssi Sakai et al. 2019

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	Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019

Type Strain

representative organism

HHB^T (=JCM 32161 =DSM 105918)

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 Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019
species Methanofervidicoccus abyssi 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 species Methanofervidicoccus abyssi Sakai et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34274.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34274.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].