Taxonomy Lineage

Lineage Browser

Walk upward from a selected taxon through the parent chain and jump back into the taxonomy browser at any step.

Selected Taxon

Methanobacterium formicicum Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Judicial Commission 199

The lineage is ordered from the selected organism upward toward higher-level taxonomy.

Level 1: Methanobacterium (genus)
Level 2: Methanobacteriaceae (family)
Level 3: Methanobacteriales (order)
Level 4: Archaeobacteria (class)
Level 6: "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990 (superkingdom)
Level 7: biota (no rank)
Level 8: all (no rank)