Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.167

Name

Methanocaldococcus infernus (Jeanthon et al. 1998) Whitman 2001

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	Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

ME^T (=JCM 15783 =DSM 11812)

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 Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002
genus Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002
species Methanocaldococcus infernus (Jeanthon et al. 1998) Whitman 2001

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 Methanocaldococcus infernus (Jeanthon et al. 1998) Whitman 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.167.

Source File

10.1601/tx.167.xml

References

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.