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Monotypic taxon:
Class
Methanococci
Boone 2002
(prokaryote)
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Entity:
Euryarchaeota (Phylum)
..Aciduliprofundum boonei (Candidatus)
..Altiarchaeales (Candidate order)
..Archaeoglobi (Class)
..Hadesarchaea (Class)
..Halobacteria (Class)
..Methanobacteria (Class)
..Methanofastidiosa (Candidate class)
..Methanomicrobia (Class)
..Methanopyri (Class)
..Thermococci (Class)
..Thermoplasmata (Class)
..Methanococci (Class)
....Methanococcales (Order)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
D.R. Boone, 2002
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Boone, D.R. 2001.
In
D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), Vol. 1: The
Archaea
and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic
Bacteria
.
In
G.M. Garrity (ed.),
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, New York.
: 235.
Validating publication
:
[Anonymous] 2002.
Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.
52
(3)
: tbl. (p. 686: "class. nov.", "Boone").
Types
Type
:
Methanococcales
(Order)
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Ref:
[Anonymous], 2002
: tbl. (p. 686).
[
new
]
Variants
Effectively published name
:
Methanococci
(Class)
Boone 2001 nom. inval.
Ref:
[Anonymous], 2002
: tbl. (p. 686).
Synonyms
Alternative name
:
Methanothermea
(Class)
Cavalier-Smith 2002
Ref:
J.P. Euzéby, 2016
: [31 Aug 2017].
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