| 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 | |
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Methanogenium frigidum Franzmann et al., 1997 |
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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).