Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) Universal Root Woese et al. 1990 Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021 Pseudomonadota corrig. Garrity et al. 2021 Alphaproteobacteriota (sic) Garrity et al. 2021 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013 Methylococcales Bowman 2005 Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylosarcina Wise et al. 2001 emend. Orata et al. 2018 Methylocaldum Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi et al. 2014 Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018 Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995 Methylosphaera Bowman et al. 1998 Methylosoma Rahalkar et al. 2007 Methylovulum Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016 Methylogaea Geymonat et al. 2011 Methylomarinum Hirayama et al. 2013 Methyloparacoccus Hoefman et al. 2014 Methyloprofundus Tavormina et al. 2015 Methyloglobulus Deutzmann et al. 2015 Methylomagnum Khalifa et al. 2015 Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methyloterricola Frindte et al. 2017 Methylospira Danilova et al. 2016 Thiodiazotropha König et al. 2016 Methylocucumis Pandit and Rahalkar 2019 Methylicorpusculum Saidi-Mehrabad et al. 2020 Methylococcus mobilis Hazeu et al. 1980 Methylococcus vinelandii Romanovskaya et al. 1981 Methylococcus thermophilus Malashenko et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980) Methylococcus whittenburyi Romanovskaya et al. 1981 Methylococcus chroococcus Romanovskaya et al. 1981 Methylococcus luteus Romanovskaya et al. 1981 Methylococcus bovis Romanovskaya et al. 1981 Methylococcus capsulatus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) Methylococcus geothermalis Awala et al. 2020 Bowman J.P. Sly L.I. Nichols P.D. Hayward A.C. Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen.nov., emendation of Methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the Group I Methanotrophs. 1993 43 4 735 753 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Int J Syst Bacteriol 0020-7713 10.1099/00207713-43-4-735 Hazeu W. Batenburg-van der Vegte W.H. de Bruyn J.C. Some characteristics of Methylococcus mobilis sp. nov. 1980 124 211 220 Archives of Microbiology Arch Microbiol 0302-8933 1432-072X 10.1007/BF00427729 Malashenko Y.R. Romanovskaya V.A. Bogachenko V.N. Stved A.D. Thermophilic and thermotolerant bacteria that assimilate methane. 1975 44 855 862 Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 0026-3656 Foster J.W. Davis R.H. A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria. 1966 91 1924 1931 Journal of Bacteriology J Bacteriol 0021-9193 1098-5530 5937247 Romanovskaya V.A. Malashenko Y.R. Bogachenko V.N. Refinement of the diagnosis of the genera and species of methane-using bacteria 1978 47 120 130 Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 0026-3656 418311 Awala S.I. Bellosillo L.A. Gwak J.-H. Nguyen N.-L. Kim S.-J. Lee B.-H. Rhee S.-K. Methylococcus geothermalis sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from a geothermal field in the Republic of Korea. 2020 70 10 5520 5530 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijsem.0.004442 32910751 Bowman J.P. Sly L.I. Nichols P.D. Hayward A.C. Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen.nov., emendation of Methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the Group I Methanotrophs. 1993 43 4 735 753 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Int J Syst Bacteriol 0020-7713 10.1099/00207713-43-4-735 Foster J.W. Davis R.H. A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria. 1966 91 1924 1931 Journal of Bacteriology J Bacteriol 0021-9193 1098-5530 5937247 Skerman V.B.D. McGowan V. Sneath P.H.A. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980 30 1 225 420 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Int J Syst Bacteriol 0020-7713 10.1099/00207713-30-1-225