Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.110

Names

Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum corrig. Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum (sic) Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992

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	Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

ΔH^T (=Delta H =ATCC 29096 =NBRC 100330 =OCM 143 =VKM B-1908 =JCM 10044 =DSM 1053)

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 Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum corrig. Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.112	Z-245 (=DSM 3720)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum corrig. Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992 and Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum (sic) Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Touzel et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.110.

Source File

10.1601/tx.110.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 1, 2016.

References

Zeikus JG, Wolfe RS. Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicus sp. n., an anaerobic, autotrophic, extreme thermophile. J Bacteriol 1972; 109:707-715. [PubMed].