Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2418

Name

Methylobacter whittenburyi (Romanovskaya et al. 1981) Bowman et al. 1993

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995

Type Strain

representative organism

Whittenbury 1521^T (=1521 of Whittenbury =1521 =ACM 3310 =NCIMB 11128)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
species Methylobacter whittenburyi (Romanovskaya et al. 1981) 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 species Methylobacter whittenburyi (Romanovskaya et al. 1981) Bowman et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2418.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2418.xml

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.