Methanosaeta

Methanosaeta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosaetaceae
Genus:	Methanosaeta; Patel and Sprott 1990
Type species
	Methanosaeta concilii; (Patel 1985) Patel & Sprott 1990
Species
	M. concilii; M. harundinacea; "M. pelagica"; M. thermoacetophila;
Synonyms
	Methanothrix Huser, Wuhrmann & Zehnder 1983;

In taxonomy, Methanosaeta is a genus of microbes within Methanosaetaceae.^[1] Like other species in this family, those of Methanosaeta metabolize acetate as their sole source of energy. The genus contains two species, Methanosaeta concilii, which is the type species (type strain GP6) and Methanosaeta thermophila. For a time, some scientists believed there to be a third species, Methanosaeta soehngenii, but because it has not been described from a pure culture, it is now called Methanothrix soehngenii.^[2]

^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanosaeta. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 254. ISBN 978-0387254937. Retrieved 2016-08-23.

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

[2] Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 254. ISBN 978-0387254937. Retrieved 2016-08-23.

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