Methanotorris

Methanotorris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Methanococci
Order:	Methanococcales
Family:	Methanocaldococcaceae
Genus:	Methanotorris Whitman 2002
Type species
Methanotorris igneus (Burggraf et al. 1990) Whitman 2002
Species
M. formicicus M. igneus

Methanotorris is a genus of archaeans in the family Methanocaldococcaceae. ^[1] The organisms in this genus differ from those of Methanothermococcus in that they are hyperthermophiles and from those of Methanocaldococcus in that they have no flagella, are not motile, and do not require selenium to grow. These microbes have not been shown to cause any illnesses. ^[2]

Nomenclature

The name "Methanotorris" comes from the Latin methanum for methane and torris for fire. Overall, it means "organism that produces methane at high temperatures." ^[2]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanotorris. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
2. David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2012-01-13). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 245–246. ISBN   978-0387216096 . Retrieved 2016-09-09.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Takai, Ken; Nealson, Ken H.; Horikoshi, Kori (July 2004). "Methanotorris formicius sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (4): 1095–1100. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.02887-0 . PMID   15280275.

Scientific books

• Whitman WB; Boone DR; Koga Y (2001). "Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN   978-0-387-98771-2.