Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.173

Name

Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Methanococci Boone 2002

Members

family	Incertae sedis 1 Garrity et al. 2007
family	Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014
family	Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989
family	Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
family	Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984
family	Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012
family	Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
family	Methanospirillaceae Boone et al. 2002

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order 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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.173.

Source File

10.1601/tx.173.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

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Sakai S, Ehara M, Tseng I-C, Yamaguchi T, Bräuer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Zinder SH, Imachi H. Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1389-1395. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.035048-0 [PubMed].
Zhilina TN, Zavarzina DG, Kevbrin VV, Kolganova TV. Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new Alkaliphilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Archaeon from a Soda Lake, and Proposal of the New Family Methanocalculaceae. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 2013; 82:681-690. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261713060131.
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
Wildgruber G, Thomm M, König H, Ober K, Ricchinto P, Stetter KO. Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch Microbiol 1982; 132:31-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690813.
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order II. Methanomicrobiales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 246.