Original publication:
Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II. 1936; 94:369-403.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Emendations:
Barker 1956
Barker HA. Bacterial fermentations. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1956.
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Mah and Kuhn 1984
Mah RA, Kuhn DA. Rejection of the type species of Methanosarcina methanica (Approved Lists, 1980), conservation of the genus Methanosarcina with Methanosarcina barkeri (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species, and emendation of the genus Methanosarcina. Request for an opinion. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:266-267.
Ni et al. 1994
Ni S, Woese CR, Aldrich HC, Boone DR. Transfer of Methanolobus siciliae to the genus Methanosarcina, naming it Methanosarcina siciliae, and emendation of the genus Methanosarcina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:357-359.
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:596. Notes:
Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
Notes:
Nomenclatural type of the family Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981.Publication:
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.
Nomenclatural type of the order Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002.Publication:
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 268-294.
Kluyver and Van Niel (1936) assigned this genus to the tribe "Micrococceae".Publication:
Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Methanasarcina".
This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Methanosarcinae".
Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988.Publication:
D. R. Boone WBW. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1988; 38:212-219.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16 Total number of child taxa: 17