Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.162

Name

Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai et al. 2002

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	Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

JCM 11175^T (=DSM 14208 =IH1)

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 Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002
species Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai et al. 2002

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 Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.162.

Source File

10.1601/tx.162.xml

References

Takai K, Inoue A, Horikoshi K. Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1089-1095. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02106-0 [PubMed].