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 thermautotrophicum corrig Zeikus & Wolfe 1972 (AL1980) emend Touzel et al 1992

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

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)