Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.154

Name

Methanococcus jannaschii Jones et al. 1984

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

JAL-1^T (=OCM 168 =DSM 2661 =JCM 10045 =CIP 104961 =ATCC 43067)

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 jannaschii Jones et al. 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 species Methanococcus jannaschii Jones et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.154.

Source File

10.1601/tx.154.xml

References

Jones WJ, Leigh JA, Mayer F, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanococcus jannaschii sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic methanogen from a submarine hydrothermal vent. Arch Microbiol 1983; 136:254-261.