Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9172

Name

Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata 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	Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983

Type Strain

representative organism

PT^T (=DSM 6194)

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 Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003
order Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021
family Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021
genus Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983
species Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata 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 species Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9172.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9172.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 18, 2017.

References

Kamagata Y, Kawasaki H, Oyaizu H, Nakamura K, Mikami E, Endo G, Koga Y, Yamasato K. Characterization of three thermophilic strains of Methanothrix (Methanosaeta) thermophila sp. nov. and rejection of Methanothrix (Methanosaeta) thermoacetophila. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:463-468. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-3-463 [PubMed].