Methanobacteriota
{{Short description|Phylum of archaea}}
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| image = Methanobacterium formicicum.jpg
| image_caption = Phase-contrast photo of Methanobacterium formicicum strain MF (DSM 1535)
| taxon = Methanobacteriota
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Methanobacteriota is a proposed phylum in the domain Archaea. {{cite web |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/phylum/methanobacteriota |website=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature |access-date=18 July 2024 |title=Phylum: Methanobacteriota }}
Taxonomy
The phylum Methanobacteriota was introduced to prokaryotic nomenclature in 2023.{{Cite journal |last1=Göker |first1=Markus |last2=Oren |first2=Aharon |date=2023-09-11 |title=Valid publication of four additional phylum names |url=https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006024 |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |language=en |volume=73 |issue=9 |doi=10.1099/ijsem.0.006024 |pmid=37695645 |issn=1466-5026}} It contains following classes:
- Archaeoglobi Garrity & Holt (2002)
- Halobacteria Grant et al. (2002)
- Methanobacteria Boone (2002) (contains type genus Methanobacterium)
- Methanococci Boone (2002)
- Methanonatronarchaeia Sorokin et al. (2018)
- Methanopyri Garrity & Holt (2002)
- Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. (2024)
- Thermococci Zillig & Reysenbach (2002)
- Thermoplasmata Reysenbach (2002)