Misplaced Pages

Methylomonas methanica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Methylococcales
Family:	Methylococcaceae
Genus:	Methylomonas
Species:	M. methanica
Binomial name
Methylomonas methanica (ex Söhngen 1906) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984
Synonyms
Synonymy Bacillus methanicus Söhngen 1906 Methamonas methanica (Söhngen 1906) Orla-Jensen 1909 Pseudomonas methanica (Söhngen 1906) Krasil’nikov 1949 Pseudomonas methanica (Söhngen 1906) sensu Dworkin and Foster 1956 Methylomonas methanica (Söhngen 1906) Leadbetter 1974

Methylomonas methanica is a Gram-negative bacterium that obtains its carbon and energy from methane, a metabolic process called methanotrophy. It is found in lakes, ponds, freshwater sediment and marshy ground. They are motile, the cells are rod-shaped.

References

1. Madigan MT, Martino JM (2006). Brock Biology of Microorganisms (11th ed.). Pearson. p. 136. ISBN 0-13-196893-9..
2. George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria

External links

• Methylomonas J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

This Gammaproteobacteria-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Gammaproteobacteria
• Bacteria described in 1906
• Gammaproteobacteria stubs