Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9693

Name

Methanococcoides alaskense Singh 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	Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon et al. 2014

Type Strain

representative organism

OCM 775^T (=DSM 17273 =AK-5)

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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002
family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 emend. Sowers et al. 1984
genus Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 emend. L'Haridon et al. 2014
species Methanococcoides alaskense Singh 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 Methanococcoides alaskense Singh et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9693.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9693.xml

References

Singh N, Kendall MM, Liu Y, Boone DR. Isolation and characterization of methylotrophic methanogens from anoxic marine sediments in Skan Bay, Alaska: description of Methanococcoides alaskense sp. nov., and emended description of Methanosarcina baltica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2531-2538. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63886-0 [PubMed].