Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.129
Name
 Miller and Wolin 1985
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
(sic) Miller and Wolin 1985
Biavati et al. 1990
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)
  Miller and Wolin 1985

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 Methanosphaera Miller and Wolin 1985. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.129.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

  1. Miller TL, Wolin MJ. Methanosphaera stadtmaniae gen. nov., sp. nov.: a species that forms methane by reducing methanol with hydrogen. Arch Microbiol 1985; 141:116-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423270 [PubMed].
  2. Biavati B, Vasta M, Ferry JG. Isolation and characterization of Methanosphaera cuniculi sp. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 1988; 54:768-771. [PubMed].