Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.153

Name

Methanococcus infernus Jeanthon et al. 1998

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	Methanococcus Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984

Type Strain

representative organism

ME^T (=JCM 15783 =DSM 11812)

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 Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanococcus Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984
species Methanococcus infernus Jeanthon et al. 1998

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 Methanococcus infernus Jeanthon et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.153.

Source File

10.1601/tx.153.xml

References

Jeanthon C, L'Haridon S, Reysenbach AL, Vernet M, Messner P, Sleytr UB, Prieur D. Methanococcus infernus sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic lithotrophic methanogen isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:913-919. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-913 [PubMed].