Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.229

Name

Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992

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	Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994

Type Strain

representative organism

MS^T (=JCM 10043 =OCM 38 =ATCC 43569 =DSM 800)

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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
genus Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ni et al. 1994
species Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992

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.15968	Fusaro (=ATCC 29787 =DSM 804)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.229.

Source File

10.1601/tx.229.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 29, 2010.

References

Schnellen CGTP. "Dissertation: Onderzoekingen over de methaangisting." Delft University of Technology, 1947, p. 1-137.