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Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai, Inoue & Horikoshi, 2002 
AphiaID: 573669

Classification: Biota > Archaea (Kingdom) > Euryarchaeota (Phylum) > Methanococci (Class) > Methanococcales (Order) > Methanococcaceae (Family) > Methanothermococcus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Methanothermococcus Whitman, 2002
Source  basis of record: Takai, K., Inoue, A., and Horikoshi, K. "Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52:1089-1095.  [details]

Environment marine
Link To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:573669
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2011-06-01 07:29:39Z  created  Trias Verbeeck, Aina
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai, Inoue & Horikoshi, 2002. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573669 on 2013-05-19
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