Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.164

Name

Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Members

species	Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones et al. 1984) Whitman 2002
species	Methanocaldococcus bathoardescens Stewart et al. 2015
species	Methanocaldococcus fervens (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002
species	Methanocaldococcus indicus L'Haridon et al. 2003
species	Methanocaldococcus infernus (Jeanthon et al. 1998) Whitman 2001
species	Methanocaldococcus villosus Bellack et al. 2011
species	Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002
species	Methanocaldococcus sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
genus Methanocaldococcus 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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.164.

Source File

10.1601/tx.164.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 10, 2015.

References

L'Haridon S, Reysenbach AL, Banta A, Messner P, Schumann P, Stackebrandt E, Jeanthon C. Methanocaldococcus indicus sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic methanogen isolated from the Central Indian Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1931-1935. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02700-0 [PubMed].
Stewart LC, Jung J-H, Kim Y-T, Kwon S-W, Park C-S, Holden JF. Methanocaldococcus bathoardescens sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic methanogen isolated from a volcanically active deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1280-1283. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000097 [PubMed].
Bellack A, Huber H, Rachel R, Wanner G, Wirth R. Methanocaldococcus villosus sp. nov., a heavily flagellated archaeon that adheres to surfaces and forms cell–cell contacts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1239-1245. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023663-0 [PubMed].
Whitman WB. Genus I. Methanocaldococcus 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. 243-245.
No reference is available 2015