Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.94
Name
 Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
Members
Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
Shlimon et al. 2004
Kern et al. 2015
Worakit et al. 1986
Zeikus and Henning 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)
Shcherbakova et al. 2011
Ma et al. 2005
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Cuzin et al. 2001
Kotelnikova et al. 1994
Patel et al. 1990
Mori and Harayama 2011
Zhu et al. 2011
Jain et al. 1988
Kitamura et al. 2011
Borrel et al. 2012
Paynter and Hungate 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
Zhu et al. 2011
Schirmack et al. 2014
Joulian et al. 2000
Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2014
Zellner et al. 1990
Mori and Harayama 2011
Smith and Hungate 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)
Kotelnikova et al. 1998
corrig. Blotevogel and Fischer 1988
corrig. Blotevogel et al. 1988
corrig. Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992
Kotelnikova et al. 1994
Zhilina and Ilarionov 1986
Laurinavichus et al. 1990
König 1985
Krivushin et al. 2010
Winter et al. 1985
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
  Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.94.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

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