Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1580

Name

Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

genus	Methylobacterium Patt et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Alessa et al. 2021
genus	Enterovirga Chen et al. 2017
genus	Meganema Thomsen et al. 2006
genus	Methylorubrum Green and Ardley 2018
genus	Microvirga Kanso and Patel 2003 emend. Zhang et al. 2019
genus	Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984
genus	Psychroglaciecola Qu et al. 2014

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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

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This information was last reviewed on March 30, 2020.

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