Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.161

Name

Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus (Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002

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	Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

OCM 138^T (=SN-1 =JCM 10549 =ATCC 35097 =DSM 2095)

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 Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002
species Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus (Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002

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.15970

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus (Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.161.

Source File

10.1601/tx.161.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 29, 2010.

References

Whitman WB. Genus II. Methanothermococcus gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 241-242.