Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.175

Name

Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981

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	Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

species	Methanomicrobium mobile (Paynter and Hungate 1968) Balch and Wolfe 1981
species	Methanomicrobium antiquum Mochimaru et al. 2016
species	Methanomicrobium paynteri Rivard et al. 1984

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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanomicrobium 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 genus Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.175.

Source File

10.1601/tx.175.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
Rivard CJ, Henson JM, Thomas MV, Smith PH. Isolation and Characterization of Methanomicrobium paynteri sp. nov., a Mesophilic Methanogen Isolated from Marine Sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 1983; 46:484-490. [PubMed].
Mochimaru H, Tamaki H, Katayama T, Imachi H, Sakata S, Kamagata Y. Methanomicrobium antiquum sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from deep sedimentary aquifers in a natural gas field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4873-4877. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001444 [PubMed].