Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.211

Name

Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989

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	Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989

Members

species	Methanocorpusculum parvum Zellner et al. 1988
species	Methanocorpusculum aggregans (Ollivier et al. 1985) Xun et al. 1989
species	Methanocorpusculum bavaricum Zellner et al. 1989
species	Methanocorpusculum labreanum Zhao et al. 1989
species	Methanocorpusculum sinense Zellner et al. 1989

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 Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989
genus Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989

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 Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.211.

Source File

10.1601/tx.211.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Zellner G, Alten C, Stackebrandt E, Conway de Macario E, Winter J. Isolation and characterization of Methanocorpusculum parvum, gen. nov., spec. nov., a new tungsten requiring, coccoid methanogen. Arch Microbiol 1987; 147:13-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00492898.
Zellner G, Stackebrandt E, Messner P, Tindall BJ, Conway de Macario E, Kneifel H, Sleytr UB, Winter J. Methanocorpusculaceae fam. nov., represented by Methanocorpusculum parvum, Methanocorpusculum sinense spec. nov. and Methanocorpusculum bavaricum spec. nov. Arch Microbiol 1989; 151:381-390. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00416595 [PubMed].
Xun L, Boone DR, Mah RA. Deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization study of Methanogenium and Methanocorpusculum species, emendation of the genus Methanocorpusculum, and transfer of Methanogenium aggregans to the genus Methanocorpusculum as Methanocorpusculum aggregans comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:109-111. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-2-109.
Zhao Y, Boone DR, Mah R, Boone JE, Xun L. Isolation and characterization of Methanocorpusculum labreanum sp. nov. from the LaBrea Tar Pits. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:10-13. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-1-10.