Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.26250

Name

Methyloprofundus Tavormina et al. 2015

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	Methyloprofundus sedimenti Tavormina et al. 2015

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 Methyloprofundus Tavormina et al. 2015

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 Methyloprofundus Tavormina et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.26250.

Source File

10.1601/tx.26250.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2014.

References

Tavormina PL, Hatzenpichler R, McGlynn S, Chadwick G, Dawson KS, Connon SA, Orphan VJ. Methyloprofundus sedimenti gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate methanotroph from ocean sediment belonging to the 'deep sea-1' clade of marine methanotrophs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:251-259. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.062927-0 [PubMed].