Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10389

Name

Halomethanococcus Yu and Kawamura 1988

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	Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

Members

species	Halomethanococcus doii Yu and Kawamura 1988

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 Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
genus Halomethanococcus Yu and Kawamura 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 genus Halomethanococcus Yu and Kawamura 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10389.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10389.xml

The status of this taxon is unclear because the type strain of the only species of this genus is considered to be lost.


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2018.

References

Yu IK, Kawamura F. Halomethanococcus doii gen. nov., sp. nov.: an obligately halophilic methanogenic bacterium from solar salt ponds. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1987; 33:303-310. https://doi.org/10.2323/jgam.33.303.