Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34931

Name

Methanomethylicus Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

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	Methanomethyliaceae (sic) Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Members

species	Methanomethylicus mesodigestum (sic) Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
species	Methanomethylicus oleusabulum (sic) Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

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 Verstraetearchaeota Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
class Methanomethylicia corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
order Methanomethylicales corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
family Methanomethyliaceae (sic) Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
genus Methanomethylicus Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

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 Methanomethylicus Vanwonterghem et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34931.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34931.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 9, 2019.

References

Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170-16170. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.170 [PubMed].