Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.155

Name

Methanococcus maripaludis 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

JJ^T (=DSM 2067)

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 maripaludis 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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16832	KA1 (=NBRC 102054)
10.1601/ex.15963	C7 (=ATCC BAA-1331 =OCM 364)
10.1601/ex.15964	DSM 14266 (=S2 =JCM 13030 =NBRC 101832)
10.1601/ex.15961	C5 (=OCM 209)
10.1601/ex.15962	OCM 363 (=C6)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanococcus maripaludis Jones et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.155.

Source File

10.1601/tx.155.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 12, 2010.

References

Jones WJ, Paynter MJB, Gupta R. Characterization of Methanococcus maripaludis sp. nov., a new methanogen isolated from salt marsh sediment. Arch Microbiol 1983; 135:91-97.