RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Morotomi, Masami A1 Nagai, Fumiko A1 Sakon, HiroshiYR 2007 T1 Genus Megamonas should be placed in the lineage of Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; ‘Acidaminococcaceae’; Megamonas JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 7 SP 1673 OP 1674 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65150-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Megamonas hypermegale is the sole species of the genus Megamonas included in the List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature and in the databases of DDBJ, EBI/EMBL and NCBI/GenBank it is placed in the lineage of Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidetes (class); ‘Bacteroidales’; Bacteroidaceae; Megamonas. Phylogenetic analysis based on comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that this species clustered with species of the family ‘Acidaminococcaceae’ but not with those of the Bacteroidaceae. The genus Megamonas should be placed in the lineage of Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; ‘Acidaminococcaceae’; Megamonas., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65150-0