Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1429

Name

Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Belova et al. 2013

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	Methylocystaceae Bowman 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Methylocystis parvus (ex Wittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Methylocystis bryophila Belova et al. 2013
species	Methylocystis echinoides (ex Gal'chenko et al. 1977) Bowman et al. 1993
species	Methylocystis heyeri Dedysh et al. 2007
species	Methylocystis hirsuta Lindner et al. 2007
species	Methylocystis rosea Wartiainen et al. 2006
species	Methylocystis silviterrae Tikhonova et al. 2021
species	Methylocystis sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Methylocystaceae Bowman 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Belova et al. 2013

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 Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Belova et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1429.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1429.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

References

Lindner AS, Pacheco A, Aldrich HC, Costello Staniec A, Uz I, Hodson DJ. Methylocystis hirsuta sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from a groundwater aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1891-1900. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64541-0 [PubMed].
Dedysh SN, Belova SE, Bodelier PL, Smirnova KV, Khmelenina VN, Chidthaisong A, Trotsenko YA, Liesack W, Dunfield PF. Methylocystis heyeri sp. nov., a novel type II methanotrophic bacterium possessing 'signature' fatty acids of type I methanotrophs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:472-479. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64623-0 [PubMed].
Bowman JP, Sly LI, Nichols PD, Hayward AC. Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen.nov., emendation of Methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the Group I Methanotrophs. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:735-753. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-4-735.
Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylocystis rosea sp. nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from Arctic wetland soil, Svalbard, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:541-547. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63912-0 [PubMed].
Belova SE, Kulichevskaya IS, Bodelier PLE, Dedysh SN. Methylocystis bryophila sp. nov., a facultatively methanotrophic bacterium from acidic Sphagnum peat, and emended description of the genus Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1096-1104. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.043505-0 [PubMed].
Bowman JP. Family V. Methylocystaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 411-413.
No reference is available 2015
Tikhonova EN, Grouzdev DS, Avtukh AN, Kravchenko IK. Methylocystis silviterrae sp.nov., a high-affinity methanotrophic bacterium isolated from the boreal forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005166 [PubMed].