Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1901

Name

Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Urakami and Komagata 1986

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Methylobacillus glycogenes Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Urakami and Komagata 1986
species	Methylobacillus arboreus Gogleva et al. 2012
species	Methylobacillus caricis Agafonova et al. 2020
species	Methylobacillus flagellatus Govorukhina et al. 1998
species	Methylobacillus gramineus Gogleva et al. 2012
species	Methylobacillus methanolivorans Kaparullina et al. 2017
species	Methylobacillus pratensis Doronina et al. 2004
species	Methylobacillus rhizosphaerae Madhaiyan et al. 2016

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
family Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Urakami and Komagata 1986

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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Taxon Abstract for the genus Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Urakami and Komagata 1986. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1901.


This information was last reviewed on April 28, 2020.

References

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