Methanobacteria

Methanobacteria
Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Methanobacteriota
Class:
Boone 2002
Orders
Synonyms
  • Archaeobacteria
  • Archaeobacteria Murray 1988
  • "Methanobacteriia" Oren, Parte & Garrity 2016

Methanobacteria is a class of archaeans in the kingdom Euryarchaeota.[1] Several of the classes of the Euryarchaeota are methanogens and the Methanobacteria are one of these classes.

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanobacteria. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.