Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.163

Name

Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002
genus	Methanotorris Whitman 2002

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the family Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.163.

Source File

10.1601/tx.163.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Whitman WB, Boone DR, Koga Y. Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 242-243.