Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.38629

Name

Methanofollis fontis Chen et al. 2020

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	Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999

Type Strain

representative organism

FWC-SCC2^T (=NBRC 113164 =DSM 107935 =BCRC AR10052)

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 Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999
species Methanofollis fontis Chen 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 species Methanofollis fontis Chen et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.38629.

Source File

10.1601/tx.38629.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

Chen S-C, Teng N-H, Lin Y-S, Lai M-C, Chen H-H, Wang C-C. Methanofollis fontis sp. nov., a methanogen isolated from marine sediment near a cold seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5497-5502. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004440 [PubMed].