Methanosarcinaceae

Methanosarcinaceae
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Methanosarcina barkeri fusaro
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosarcinaceae
Binomial name
Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
Genera
Halomethanococcus ♦ Yu and Kawamura 1988 Methanimicrococcus Sprenger et al. 2000 Methanococcoides Sowers and Ferry 1985 Methanohalobium Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988 Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988 Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983 Methanomethylovorans Lomans et al. 2004 Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002 Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Ni et al. 1994

In taxonomy, the Methanosarcinaceae are a family of the Methanosarcinales.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

?Halomethanococcus doii ♦ Yu and Kawamura 1988 ?Methanohalobium evestigatum Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988 Methanosalsum zhilinae (Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone and Baker 2002 Methanomethylovorans ?M. victoriae ♠ Muyodi et al. 2000 M. hollandica Lomans et al. 2004 (type sp.) M. thermophila Jiang et al. 2005 Methanimicrococcus blatticola Sprenger et al. 2000 Methanosarcina ?M. horonobensis Shimizu et al. 2011 ?M. methanica (Smit 1930) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (nom. rejic.) ?M. siciliae (Stetter and König 1989) Ni et al. 1994 emend. Elberson and Sowers 1997 ?M. vacuolata Zhilina and Zavarzin 1987 M. semesiae Lyimo et al. 2000 M. baltica von Klein et al. 2002 emend. Singh et al. 2005 M. lacustris Simankova et al. 2002 M. mazei (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984 M. acetivorans Sowers et al. 1986 M. barkeri Schnellen 1947 emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992 (type sp.) M. thermophila Zinder et al. 1985 Methanococcoides ?M. methylutens Sowers and Ferry 1985 (type sp.) M. alaskense Singh et al. 2005 M. burtonii Franzmann et al. 1993 Methanohalophilus ?M. euhalobius ♠ (Obraztsova et al. 1987) Davidova et al. 1997 ?M. halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991 M. mahii Paterek and Smith 1988 (type sp.) M. portucalensis Boone et al. 1993 Methanolobus ?M. bombayensis Kadam et al. 1994 ?M. psychrophilus ♠ Zhang et al. 2008 ?M. tindarius König and Stetter 1983 (type sp.) M. zinderi Doerfert et al. 2009 M. oregonensis (Liu et al. 1990) Boone 2002 M. taylorii Oremland and Boone 1994 M. profundi Mochimaru et al. 2009 M. vulcani Stetter et al. 1989 emend. Kadam and Boone 1995

Notes:
♠ Strains found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)
♦ Type strain lost or not available

Further reading

Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Methanosarcinaceae
• PubMed Central references for Methanosarcinaceae
• Google Scholar references for Methanosarcinaceae

External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Methanosarcinaceae
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanosarcinaceae
• Search Species2000 page for Methanosarcinaceae
• MicrobeWiki page for Methanosarcinaceae
• LSPN page for Methanosarcinaceae