Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.187

Name

Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999

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	Methanofollis tationis (Zabel et al. 1986) Zellner et al. 1999
species	Methanofollis aquaemaris Lai and Chen 2001
species	Methanofollis ethanolicus Imachi et al. 2009
species	Methanofollis fontis Chen et al. 2020
species	Methanofollis formosanus Wu et al. 2005
species	Methanofollis liminatans (Zellner et al. 1990) Zellner et al. 1999

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 Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999

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 Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.187.

Source File

10.1601/tx.187.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

Imachi H, Sakai S, Nagai H, Yamaguchi T, Takai K. Methanofollis ethanolicus sp. nov., an ethanol-utilizing methanogen isolated from a lotus field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:800-805. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.003731-0 [PubMed].
Zellner G, Boone DR, Keswani J, Whitman WB, Woese CR, Hagelstein A, Tindall BJ, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Methanogenium tationis and Methanogenium liminatans as Methanofollis tationis gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methanofollis liminatans comb. nov. and description of a new strain of Methanofollis liminatans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:247-255. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-1-247 [PubMed].
Lai MC, Chen SC. Methanofollis aquaemaris sp. nov., a methanogen isolated from an aquaculture fish pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1873-1880. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-5-1873 [PubMed].
Chen S-C, Teng N-H, Lin Y-S, Lai M-C, Chen H-H, Wang C-C. Methanofollis fontis sp. nov., a methanogen isolated from marine sediment near a cold seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5497-5502. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004440 [PubMed].
Wu SY, Chen SC, Lai MC. Methanofollis formosanus sp. nov., isolated from a fish pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:837-842. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63475-0 [PubMed].