Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.417

Name

Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992

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	Methanopyraceae Huber and Stetter 2002

Members

species	Methanopyrus kandleri Kurr et al. 1992

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 Methanopyri Garrity and Holt 2002
order Methanopyrales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Methanopyraceae Huber and Stetter 2002
genus Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992

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 Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.417.

Source File

10.1601/tx.417.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 7, 2009.

References

Kurr M, Huber R, König H, Jannasch HW, Fricke H, Trincone A, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO. Methanopyrus kandleri, gen. and sp. nov. represents a novel group of hyperthermophilic methanogens, growing at 110 C. Arch Microbiol 1991; 156:239-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262992.
Huber R, Stetter KO. Order I. Methanopyrales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 353.