WoRMS taxon details
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones, Leigh, Mayer, Woese & Wolfe, 1984) Whitman, 2002
AphiaID: 573641
AphiaID: 573641
| Classification: Biota > Archaea (Kingdom) > Euryarchaeota (Phylum) > Methanococci (Class) > Methanococcales (Order) > Methanocaldococcaceae (Family) > Methanocaldococcus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Methanocaldococcus Whitman, 2002 | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Jones, W.J., Leigh, J.A., Mayer, F., Woese, C.R., and Wolfe, R.S. "Methanococcus jannaschii sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic methanogen from a submarine hydrothermal vent." Arch. Microbiol. (1983) 136:254-261. [details] new combination reference: Whitman, W.B. "Genus I. Methanocaldococcus gen. nov." In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 243-245. [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Link | To GenBank (666 nucleotides; 976 proteins) | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:573641 | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones, Leigh, Mayer, Woese & Wolfe, 1984) Whitman, 2002. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573641 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||
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