Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.249

Name

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

Type Strain

representative organism

FDF-1^T (=OCM 59 =DSM 7471)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
species Methanohalophilus portucalensis Boone 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 Methanohalophilus portucalensis Boone et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.249.

Source File

10.1601/tx.249.xml

References

Boone DR, Mathrani IM, Liu Y, Menaia JAGF, Mah RA, Boone JE. Isolation and characterization of Methanohalophilus portucalensis, sp. nov. and DNA reassociation study of the genus Methanohalophilus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:430-437. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-3-430.