Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.225

Name

Methanocalculus taiwanensis Lai et al. 2002

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	Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998

Type Strain

representative organism

OCM 671^T (=CCRC 16182 =DSM 14663 =P2F9704a)

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 Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014
genus Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998
species Methanocalculus taiwanensis Lai et al. 2002

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.29935	P2F9705 (=OCM 672)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanocalculus taiwanensis Lai et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.225.

Source File

10.1601/tx.225.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 7, 2017.

References

Lai MC, Chen SC, Shu CM, Chiou MS, Wang CC, Chuang MJ, Hong TY, Liu CC, Lai LJ, Hua JJ. Methanocalculus taiwanensis sp. nov., isolated from an estuarine environment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1799-1806. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1799 [PubMed].