Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.21312

Name

Methylovulum Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016

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	Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993

Members

species	Methylovulum miyakonense Iguchi et al. 2011
species	Methylovulum psychrotolerans Oshkin et al. 2016 emend. Bussmann et al. 2021

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Methylococcales Bowman 2005
family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993
genus Methylovulum Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016

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 Methylovulum Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.21312.


This information was last reviewed on November 18, 2016.

References

Oshkin IY, Belova SE, Danilova OV, Miroshnikov KK, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Liesack W, Dedysh SN. Methylovulum psychrotolerans sp. nov., a cold-adapted methanotroph from low- temperature terrestrial environments and emended description of the genus Methylovulum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2417-2423. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001046 [PubMed].
Iguchi H, Yurimoto H, Sakai Y. Methylovulum miyakonense gen. nov., sp. nov., a type I methanotroph isolated from forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:810-815. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.019604-0 [PubMed].