Name: Methanobacteria Boone 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.bac.te’ri.a. N.L. neut. n. Methanobacterium, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanobacteria, the class of Methanobacteriales (nominative plural of Methanobacterium)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Effective publication: Boone DR. Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 213-235.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Archaeobacteria Murray 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Methanobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Methanobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • Nomenclatural type of the superclass "Methanomada" Petitjean et al. 2015. Publication: Petitjean C, Deschamps P, Lopez-Garcia P, Moreira D, Brochier-Armanet C. Extending the conserved phylogenetic core of archaea disentangles the evolution of the third domain of life. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 32:1242-1254.
  • Luketa (2012) assigned this class to the kingdom "Euryarchaeida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Methanothermea Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Methanobacterla".
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 77; ATCC: 35; JCM: 33; VKM: 22; NBRC: 17; CGMCC: 3; KCTC: 1.
  • This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Oren A, Parte A, Garrity GM. Implementation of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes for the renaming of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4296-4298.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 211-355.

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