Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.2401
Name
 Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
Taxonomic Rank
family
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Bowman 2005
Members
Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993
Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020
Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995
Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi et al. 2014
Pandit and Rahalkar 2019
Geymonat et al. 2011
Deutzmann et al. 2015
Khalifa et al. 2015
Hirayama et al. 2013
Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018
(ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
Hoefman et al. 2014
Tavormina et al. 2015
Wise et al. 2001 emend. Orata et al. 2018
Rahalkar et al. 2007
Bowman et al. 1998
Danilova et al. 2016
Frindte et al. 2017
Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016
König et al. 2016
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
  Bowman 2005
  Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

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 Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2401.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2020.

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