Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2432

Name

Methylomonas pelagica Sieburth et al. 1988

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	Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Type Strain

representative organism

AA-23^T (=ACM 3505 =NCIMB 2265)

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 Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
species Methylomonas pelagica Sieburth et al. 1988

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 Methylomonas pelagica Sieburth et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2432.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2432.xml

References

Sieburth JM, Johnson PW, Eberhardt MA, Sieracki ME, Lidstrom M, Laux D. The first methane-oxidizing bacterium from the upper mixing layer of the deep ocean.: Methylomonas pelagica sp. nov. Curr Microbiol 1987; 14:285-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01568138.