Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9109

Name

Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983

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	Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021

Members

species	Methanothrix soehngenii Huser et al. 1983
species	Methanothrix concilii Patel 1985
species	Methanothrix harundinacea (Ma et al. 2006) Akinyemi et al. 2021
species	Methanothrix paradoxum (sic) Angle et al. 2017
species	Methanothrix thermoacetophilia (sic) Nozhevnikova and Chudina 1988
species	Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata et al. 1992

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 Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003
order Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021
family Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021
genus Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983

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 Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9109.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9109.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2021.

References

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Patel GB. Characterization and nutritional properties of Methanothrix concilii sp. nov., a mesophilc, acetoclastic methanogen. Can J Microbiol 1984; 30:1383-1396.
Angle JC, Morin TH, Solden LM, Narrowe AB, Smith GJ, Borton MA, Rey-Sanchez C, Daly RA, Mirfenderesgi G, Hoyt DW, Riley WJ, Miller CS, Bohrer G, Wrighton KC. Methanogenesis in oxygenated soils is a substantial fraction of wetland methane emissions. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1567-1567. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01753-4 [PubMed].
Nozhevnikova AN, Chudina VI. Morphology of the thermophilic acetate bacterium Methanothrix thermoacetophila sp. nov. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1984; 53:756-760.
Kamagata Y, Kawasaki H, Oyaizu H, Nakamura K, Mikami E, Endo G, Koga Y, Yamasato K. Characterization of three thermophilic strains of Methanothrix (Methanosaeta) thermophila sp. nov. and rejection of Methanothrix (Methanosaeta) thermoacetophila. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:463-468. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-3-463 [PubMed].
Akinyemi TS, Shao N, Whitman WB. Methanotrichaceae fam. nov. In: Professor William B. Whitman (ed), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, First Edition, Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2015.