Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2402

Name

Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993

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	Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Members

species	Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Methylococcus bovis Romanovskaya et al. 1981
species	Methylococcus chroococcus Romanovskaya et al. 1981
species	Methylococcus geothermalis Awala et al. 2020
species	Methylococcus luteus Romanovskaya et al. 1981
species	Methylococcus mobilis Hazeu et al. 1980
species	Methylococcus thermophilus Malashenko et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Methylococcus vinelandii Romanovskaya et al. 1981
species	Methylococcus whittenburyi Romanovskaya et al. 1981

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 Methylococcales Bowman 2005
family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) 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 genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2402.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2402.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

Bowman JP, Sly LI, Nichols PD, Hayward AC. Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen.nov., emendation of Methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the Group I Methanotrophs. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:735-753. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-4-735.
Hazeu W, Batenburg-van der Vegte WH, de Bruyn JC. Some characteristics of Methylococcus mobilis sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1980; 124:211-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00427729.
Malashenko YR, Romanovskaya VA, Bogachenko VN, Stved AD. Thermophilic and thermotolerant bacteria that assimilate methane. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1975; 44:855-862.
Foster JW, Davis RH. A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria. J Bacteriol 1966; 91:1924-1931. [PubMed].
Romanovskaya VA, Malashenko YR, Bogachenko VN. Refinement of the diagnosis of the genera and species of methane-using bacteria. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1978; 47:120-130. [PubMed].
Awala SI, Bellosillo LA, Gwak J-H, Nguyen N-L, Kim S-J, Lee B-H, Rhee S-K. Methylococcus geothermalis sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from a geothermal field in the Republic of Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5520-5530. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004442 [PubMed].