Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.418

Name

Methanopyrus kandleri Kurr et al. 1992

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	Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 6324^T (=AV19)

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

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.17098

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Methanopyrus kandleri Kurr et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.418.

Source File

10.1601/tx.418.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 18, 2010.

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.