Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14242

Name

Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

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	Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012

Members

species	Methanosphaerula palustris Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

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 Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012
genus Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

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 Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14242.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14242.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 26, 2009.

References

Cadillo-Quiroz H, Yavitt JB, Zinder SH. Methanosphaerula palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from a minerotrophic fen peatland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:928-935. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.006890-0 [PubMed].
Sakai S, Ehara M, Tseng I-C, Yamaguchi T, Bräuer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Zinder SH, Imachi H. Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1389-1395. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.035048-0 [PubMed].