Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.146
Name
 Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Members
Stadtman and Barker 1951 (Approved Lists 1980)
Kendall et al. 2006
Corder et al. 1988
Jeanthon et al. 1999
Blotevogel et al. 1986
Zhilina 1984
Burggraf et al. 1990
Jeanthon et al. 1998
Jones et al. 1984
Jones et al. 1984
Barker 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
Huber et al. 1984
Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Ward et al. 1989
Jeanthon et al. 1999
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
  Boone 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984

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 Methanococcus Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.146.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

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