Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14017

Name

Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Members

genus	Methermicoccus Cheng et al. 2007

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007

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 family Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14017.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14017.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 4, 2018.

References

Cheng L, Qiu TL, Yin XB, Wu XL, Hu GQ, Deng Y, Zhang H. Methermicoccus shengliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, methylotrophic methanogen isolated from oil-production water, and proposal of Methermicoccaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2964-2969. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65049-0 [PubMed].