Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23079

Name

Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanoregula Bräuer et al. 2011
genus	Methanolinea Imachi et al. 2008
genus	Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012

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 family Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23079.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23079.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 1, 2018.

References

Sakai S, Ehara M, Tseng I-C, Yamaguchi T, Bräuer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Zinder SH, Imachi H. Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1389-1395. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.035048-0 [PubMed].