Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.245

Name

Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014

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	Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984

Members

species	Methanohalophilus mahii Paterek and Smith 1988
species	Methanohalophilus halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991
species	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus Katayama et al. 2014
species	Methanohalophilus oregonensis corrig. Liu et al. 1990
species	Methanohalophilus portucalensis Boone et al. 1993
species	Methanohalophilus profundi L'Haridon et al. 2021
species	Methanohalophilus zhilinae Mathrani et al. 1988

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
genus Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014

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 Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 emend. Katayama et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.245.

Source File

10.1601/tx.245.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 15, 2021.

References

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Liu Y, Boone DR, Choy C. Methanohalophilus oregonense sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen from an alkaline, saline aquifer. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:111-116. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-111.
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