Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2411

Name

Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995

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	Methylobacter luteus (Romanovskaya et al. 1981) Bowman et al. 1993
species	Methylobacter agilis (ex Wittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993
species	Methylobacter albus (ex Wittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993
species	Methylobacter marinus Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Orata et al. 2018
species	Methylobacter oryzae Khatri et al. 2020
species	Methylobacter pelagicus (Sieburth et al. 1988) Bowman et al. 1993
species	Methylobacter psychrophilus Omel'chenko et al. 2000
species	Methylobacter tundripaludum Wartiainen et al. 2006
species	Methylobacter whittenburyi (Romanovskaya et al. 1981) Bowman et al. 1993

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 Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995

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 Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2411.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2411.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 8, 2021.

References

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Omel'chenko MV, Vasil'eva LV, Zavarzin GA, Savel'eva ND, Lysenko AM, Mityushina LL, Khmelenina VN, Trotsenko YuA. A novel psychrophilic methanotroph of the genus Methylobacter. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1996; 65:384-389.
Khatri K, Mohite JA, Pandit PS, Bahulikar R, Rahalkar MC. Description of 'Ca. Methylobacter oryzae' KRF1, a novel species from the environmentally important Methylobacter clade 2. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:729-735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-019-01369-2 [PubMed].
Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylobacter tundripaludum sp. nov., a methane-oxidizing bacterium from Arctic wetland soil on the Svalbard islands, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:109-113. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63728-0 [PubMed].