Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.265

Name

Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990

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	Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002

Members

species	Methanosaeta concilii (Patel 1985) Patel and Sprott 1990
species	Methanosaeta harundinacea Ma et al. 2006
species	Methanosaeta thermoacetophila (Nozhevnikova and Chudina 1988) Patel and Sprott 1990
species	Methanosaeta thermophila (Kamagata et al. 1992) Boone and Kamagata 1998

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 Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002
genus Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990

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 Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.265.

Source File

10.1601/tx.265.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Ma K, Liu X, Dong X. Methanosaeta harundinacea sp. nov., a novel acetate-scavenging methanogen isolated from a UASB reactor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:127-131. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63887-0 [PubMed].
Boone DR, Kamagata Y. Rejection of the species Methanothrix soehngenii (VP) and the genus Methanothrix (VP) as nomina confusa, and transfer of Methanothrix thermophila (VP) to the genus Methanosaeta (VP) as Methanosaeta thermophila comb. nov. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1079-1080. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-1079.
Patel GB, Sprott GD. Methanosaeta concilii gen. nov., sp. nov. ("Methanothrix concilii") and Methanosaeta thermoacetophila nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:79-82. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-1-79.