Methylomonas
Appearance
Methylomonas | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Methylococcales |
Family: | Methylococcaceae |
Genus: | Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 |
Type species | |
Methylomonas methanica | |
Species | |
M. aurantiaca[1] |
Methylomonas is a genus of bacteria that obtain their carbon and energy from methane, a metabolic process called methanotrophy.[2]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Methylomonas J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature