Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.213

Name

Methanocorpusculum aggregans (Ollivier et al. 1985) Xun et al. 1989

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 3027^T (=MSt =OGC 21)

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 aggregans (Ollivier et al. 1985) 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 species Methanocorpusculum aggregans (Ollivier et al. 1985) Xun et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.213.

Source File

10.1601/tx.213.xml

References

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.