Name: Methanobrevibacter thaueri Miller and Lin 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: thau’er.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. thaueri, of Thauer, named in honour of Rolf K. Thauer for his fundamental contributions to the delineation of the biochemistry of methanogenesis

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CW; DSM 11955; DSM 11995; OCM 817

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: U55236 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Miller TL, Lin C. Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov.. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:819-822.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanocatella thaueri" (Miller and Lin 2002) Protasov and Brune 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 15 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Methanobrevibacter Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Miller TL, Lin C. Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov.. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:819-822.

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Record number: 777828