Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9303

Name

Methanofollis formosanus Wu et al. 2005

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	Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999

Type Strain

representative organism

N2M9704^T (=ML 15 =OCM 789 =DSM 15483)

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 Methanococci Boone 2002
order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
genus Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999
species Methanofollis formosanus Wu et al. 2005

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 Methanofollis formosanus Wu et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9303.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9303.xml

References

Wu SY, Chen SC, Lai MC. Methanofollis formosanus sp. nov., isolated from a fish pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:837-842. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63475-0 [PubMed].