Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17938

Name

Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984

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	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanoplanus Wildgruber et al. 1984 emend. Göker et al. 2014

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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984

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 Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17938.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17938.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 11, 2017.

References

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.