Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.212

Name

Methanocorpusculum parvum Zellner et al. 1988

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 3823^T (=ATCC 43721 =XII)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
species Methanocorpusculum parvum Zellner et al. 1988

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 species Methanocorpusculum parvum Zellner et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.212.

Source File

10.1601/tx.212.xml

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.