Methanogenium frigidum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Archaea |
Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
Class: | Methanomicrobia |
Order: | Methanomicrobiales |
Family: | Methanomicrobiaceae |
Genus: | Methanogenium |
Species: | M. frigidum |
Binomial name | |
Methanogenium frigidum Franzmann et al., 1997 |
Methanogenium frigidum is a psychrophilic, H2-using methanogen from Ace Lake, Antarctica.
Cells are psychrophilic, irregular, slightly halophilic and non-motile coccoids (diameter 1.2 to 2.5 μm).