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Taxon: Genus Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) (prokaryote)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Domain) Archaea - (Phylum) Euryarchaeota - (Class) Methanomicrobia - (Order) Methanosarcinales - (Family) Methanosarcinaceae

Subsequent positions

Methaneocreatrices (Phylum) Margulis and Schwartz 1982

Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 38. [assumed]

Current position

Methanosarcinaceae (Family) Balch and Wolfe 1981

Ref: G.M. Garrity et al., 2007: 18.

Alternative positions

*Methaneocreatrices* (Phylum) Margulis and Schwartz 1982	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 38. [rough position]
*methanogens* ([unranked])	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 58. [rough position]

Historical positions

*Methanosarcinaceae* (Family) Balch and Wolfe 1981	Ref: J.P. Euzéby, 2016: [6 Sep 2017]. [available name]
*Methanosarcinaceae* (Family) Balch and Wolfe 1981	Ref: G.M. Garrity et al., 2007: 18.
*Methanosarcinaceae* (Family) Balch and Wolfe 1981	Ref: G.M. Garrity et al., 2001b: 2.
*Methanosarcinaceae* (Family) Balch and Wolfe 1981	Ref: D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz, 2001: 269; xiv.
*methanogens* ([unranked])	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998: 58. [rough position]
*Methaneocreatrices* (Phylum) Margulis and Schwartz 1982	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 38. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	14s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 27 Jan 2015	[14s]
2007	G.M. Garrity et al.	[11s]

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