Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2318

Name

Methylophaga Janvier et al. 1985 emend. Boden 2012

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Methylophaga marina Janvier et al. 1985
species	Methylophaga alcalica Doronina et al. 2003
species	Methylophaga aminisulfidivorans Kim et al. 2007
species	Methylophaga frappieri Villeneuve et al. 2013
species	Methylophaga lonarensis Antony et al. 2012
species	Methylophaga murata (sic) Doronina et al. 2011
species	Methylophaga natronica Doronina et al. 2003
species	Methylophaga nitratireducenticrescens Villeneuve et al. 2013
species	Methylophaga pinxianii Wei et al. 2022
species	Methylophaga sulfidovorans de Zwart et al. 1998
species	Methylophaga thalassica Janvier et al. 1985
species	Methylophaga thiooxydans corrig. Boden et al. 2011
species	Methylophaga sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Methylophaga Janvier et al. 1985 emend. Boden 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 genus Methylophaga Janvier et al. 1985 emend. Boden 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2318.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2318.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2022.

References

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Antony CP, Doronina NV, Boden R, Trotsenko YA, Shouche YS, Murrell JC. Methylophaga lonarensis sp. nov., a moderately haloalkaliphilic methylotroph isolated from the soda lake sediments of a meteorite impact crater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1613-1618. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.035089-0 [PubMed].
de Zwart JMM, Nelisse PN, Kuenen JG. Isolation and characterization of Methylophaga sulfidovorans sp. nov.: an obligately methylotrophic, aerobic, dimethylsulfide oxidizing bacterium from a microbial mat. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1996; 20:261-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.1996.tb00324.x.
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Boden R, Kelly DP, Murrell JC, Schäfer H. Oxidation of dimethylsulfide to tetrathionate by Methylophaga thiooxidans sp. nov.: a new link in the sulfur cycle. Environ Microbiol 2010; 12:2688-2699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02238.x [PubMed].
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Doronina NV, Darmaeva TD, Trotsenko YA. Methylophaga alcalica sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic, obligately methylotrophic bacterium from an East Mongolian saline soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:223-229. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02267-0 [PubMed].
Doronina N, Darmaeva T, Trotsenko Y. Methylophaga natronica sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic, restricted-facultatively methylotrophic bacterium from Soda Lake of the Southern Transbaikal Region. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:382-389. https://doi.org/10.1078/072320203322497419 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015