Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.132

Name

Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000

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	Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (Zeikus and Wolfe 1972) Wasserfallen et al. 2000
species	Methanothermobacter crinale Cheng et al. 2012
species	Methanothermobacter defluvii (Kotelnikova et al. 1994) Boone 2002
species	Methanothermobacter marburgensis Wasserfallen et al. 2000
species	Methanothermobacter tenebrarum Nakamura et al. 2013
species	Methanothermobacter thermoflexus (Kotelnikova et al. 1994) Boone 2002
species	Methanothermobacter thermophilus (Laurinavichus et al. 1990) Boone 2002
species	Methanothermobacter wolfeii (Winter et al. 1985) Wasserfallen et al. 2000

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 Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000

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 Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.132.

Source File

10.1601/tx.132.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 28, 2013.

References

Wasserfallen A, Nölling J, Pfister P, Reeve J, Conway de Macario E. Phylogenetic analysis of 18 thermophilic Methanobacterium isolates supports the proposals to create a new genus, Methanothermobacter gen. nov., and to reclassify several isolates in three species, Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus comb. nov., Methanothermobacter wolfeii comb. nov., and Methanothermobacter marburgensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:43-53. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-43 [PubMed].
Boone DR. Genus IV. Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen, Nolling, Pfister, Reeve and Conway de Macario 2000, 51VP. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 230-233.
Nakamura K, Takahashi A, Mori C, Tamaki H, Mochimaru H, Nakamura K, Takamizawa K, Kamagata Y. Methanothermobacter tenebrarum sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic, thermophilic methanogen isolated from gas-associated formation water of a natural gas field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:715-722. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.041681-0 [PubMed].
Cheng L, Dai L, Li X, Zhang H, Lu Y. Isolation and Characterization of Methanothermobacter crinale sp. nov., a Novel Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen from the Shengli Oil Field. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:5212-5219. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00210-11 [PubMed].