Methanopyrus
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| Methanopyrus kandleri AV19 Slesarev AI et al., 2002 |
Methanopyrus is a genus of methanogen, with a single described species, M. kandleri. It is a hyperthermophile, discovered in a black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000 m, at temperatures of 80-101 °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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