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Methanosalsum
Description | In taxonomy, Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae. This genus contains two species. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanosalsum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Archaea : Euryarchaeota : Methanomicrobia : Methanosarcinales : Methanosarcinaceae : Methanosalsum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Methanosalsum Boone & Baker, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52::686 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanosalsum |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Methanosalsum natronophilum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Methanosalsum zhilinae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Euzéby, J.P. (2008). List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN): www.bacterio.net (2008 version). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000/Boone & Castenholz, 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!