Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.142

Name

Methanothermus sociabilis Lauerer et al. 1986

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	Methanothermus Stetter et al. 1982

Type Strain

representative organism

Kf1-Fl^T (=DSM 3496)

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 Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982
genus Methanothermus Stetter et al. 1982
species Methanothermus sociabilis Lauerer et al. 1986

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 Methanothermus sociabilis Lauerer et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.142.

Source File

10.1601/tx.142.xml

References

Lauerer G, Kristjansson JK, Langworthy TA, König H, Stetter KO. Methanothermus sociabilis sp. nov., a second species within the Methanothermaceae growing at 97 degrees Celcius. Syst Appl Microbiol 1986; 8:100-105.