Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.122

Name

Methanobrevibacter filiformis Leadbetter et al. 1998

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	Methanobrevibacter Balch and Wolfe 1981

Type Strain

representative organism

RFM-3^T (=DSM 11501)

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 Methanobrevibacter Balch and Wolfe 1981
species Methanobrevibacter filiformis Leadbetter et al. 1998

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 Methanobrevibacter filiformis Leadbetter et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.122.

Source File

10.1601/tx.122.xml

References

Leadbetter JR, Crosby LD, Breznak JA. Methanobrevibacter filiformis sp. nov., A filamentous methanogen from termite hindguts. Arch Microbiol 1998; 169:287-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050574 [PubMed].