Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2423

Name

Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018

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	Methylomicrobium agile (Bowman et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1995
species	Methylomicrobium album (Bowman et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1995
species	Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008
species	Methylomicrobium buryatense Kaluzhnaya et al. 2001
species	Methylomicrobium japanense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008
species	Methylomicrobium kenyense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008
species	Methylomicrobium lacus (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005) Orata et al. 2019
species	Methylomicrobium pelagicum (Sieburth et al. 1988) Bowman et al. 1995

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 Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018

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 Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2423.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2423.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 5, 2019.

References

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