Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.37243

Name

Methylicorpusculum Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020

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	Methylicorpusculum oleiharenae Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020

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 Methylicorpusculum Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020

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 Methylicorpusculum Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.37243.

Source File

10.1601/tx.37243.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2020.

References

Saidi-Mehrabad A, Kits DK, Kim J-J, Tamas I, Schumann P, Khadka R, Strilets T, Smirnova AV, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Dunfield PF. Methylicorpusculum oleiharenae gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic methanotroph isolated from an oil sands tailings pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2499-2508. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004064 [PubMed].