Name: "Methanocellia" Rinke et al. 2021

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.cel’li.a. N.L. fem. n. Methanocella, type genus of the type order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanocellia, the class of the order Methanocellales [incorrectly formed: genus should have been the type]

Gender: neuter

Type order: Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008

Original publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanosarcinia" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanocellia Chuvochina et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this class to the phylum "Halobacteriota" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008 to this class. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936.

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