Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.93

Name

Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Members

genus	Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Methanobrevibacter Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus	Methanosphaera Miller and Wolin 1985
genus	Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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
family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.93.

Source File

10.1601/tx.93.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralbl Bakteriol Parasitenkd Infektionskr Hyg 1936; 94:369-403.
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].
Miller TL, Wolin MJ. Methanosphaera stadtmaniae gen. nov., sp. nov.: a species that forms methane by reducing methanol with hydrogen. Arch Microbiol 1985; 141:116-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423270 [PubMed].