Title


Family Methermicoccaceae

Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow () only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).

Classification - Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction".

 

Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Methermicoccus Cheng et al. 2007.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Methermicoccus, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methermicoccaceae, the family of the genus Methermicoccus.
Valid publication: CHENG (L.), QIU (T.L.), YIN (X.B.), WU (X.L.), HU (G.Q.), DENG (Y.) and ZHANG (H.): Methermicoccus shengliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, methylotrophic methanogen isolated from oil-production water, and proposal of Methermicoccaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 2964-2969.
Original article in IJSEM Online

   image