Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.92

Name

Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002

Members

family	Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
family	Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order 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 Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.92.

Source File

10.1601/tx.92.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

List Editor. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. List No. 25. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:220-222. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-38-2-220.
List Editor. Validation List no. 85. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-3-685 [PubMed].