Genus Methyloparacoccus
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Methyloparacoccus Hoefman et al. 2014, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Methyloparacoccus murrellii Hoefman et al. 2014.
Etymology: N.L. n. methylum (from French méthyle), the methyl group; N.L. pref. methylo- pertaining to the methyl radical; Gr. prep. para, beside, alongside of, near, like; N.L. masc. n. coccus (from Gr. n. kokkos), a grain or berry; N.L. masc. n. Methyloparacoccus, referring to a methyl-using organism resembling but clearly different from other methyl-using cocci.
Valid publication: HOEFMAN, S., VAN DER HA, D., IGUCHI, H., YURIMOTO, H., SAKAI, Y., BOON, N., VANDAMME, P., HEYLEN, K. and DE VOS, P. 2014. Methyloparacoccus murrellii gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from pond water. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 2100-2107.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Methyloparacoccus murrellii Hoefman et al. 2014, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) R-49797=LMG 27482=JCM 19379.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: HF558990.
Etymology: N.L. masc. gen. n. murrellii, of Murrell, named in honour of the British microbiologist Colin Murrell for his contributions to the knowledge on methanotrophs.
Source: Environmental - freshwater.
Valid publication: HOEFMAN, S., VAN DER HA, D., IGUCHI, H., YURIMOTO, H., SAKAI, Y., BOON, N., VANDAMME, P., HEYLEN, K. and DE VOS, P. 2014. Methyloparacoccus murrellii gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from pond water. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 2100-2107.
Original article in IJSEM Online