Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones, Leigh, Mayer, Woese & Wolfe, 1984) Whitman, 2002

Dataset

World Register of Marine Species

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

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.

Classification

kingdom

Archaea

phylum

Euryarchaeota

class

Methanococci

order

Methanococcales

family

Methanocaldococcaceae

genus

Methanocaldococcus

species

Methanocaldococcus jannaschii

Name

Homonyms

Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones, Leigh, Mayer, Woese & Wolfe, 1984) Whitman, 2002

Bibliographic References

1. 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.
2. Whitman, W. B. G. (2001). Genus I. Methanocaldococcus gen. nov. <em>Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.</em> 243-245.