Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.219

Names

Methanospirillum hungatii (sic) Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010, Methanospirillum hungatei corrig. Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010

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	Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhou et al. 2014

Type Strain

representative organism

JF-1^T (=JCM 10133 =DSM 864 =OCM 16 =ATCC 27890)

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 Methanospirillaceae Boone et al. 2002
genus Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhou et al. 2014
species Methanospirillum hungatii (sic) Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010

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 Methanospirillum hungatii (sic) Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010 and Methanospirillum hungatei corrig. Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Iino et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.219.

Source File

10.1601/tx.219.xml

References

Ferry JG, Smith PH, Wolfe RS. Methanospirillum, a new genus of methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of Methanospirillum hungatii sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1974; 24:465-469. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-24-4-465.