METHANOPYRUS

In taxonomy, '''Methanopyrus''' is a genus of the Methanopyraceae.^[1]
'''Methanopyrus''' is a genus of methanogen, with a single described species, ''M. kandleri''. It is a hyperthermophile, discovered on the wall of a black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000 m, at temperatures of 84-110 °C. It lives in an hydrogen-carbon dioxide rich environment, and like other methanogens reduces the former to methane. It is placed among the Euryarchaeota, in its own class.

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1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanopyrus. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources

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