Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.38634

Name

Methylococcus geothermalis Awala et al. 2020

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	Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Type Strain

representative organism

IM1^T (=KCTC 72677 =JCM 33941)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Methylococcales Bowman 2005
family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993
species Methylococcus geothermalis Awala et al. 2020

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 Methylococcus geothermalis Awala et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.38634.

Source File

10.1601/tx.38634.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

Awala SI, Bellosillo LA, Gwak J-H, Nguyen N-L, Kim S-J, Lee B-H, Rhee S-K. Methylococcus geothermalis sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from a geothermal field in the Republic of Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5520-5530. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004442 [PubMed].