Name: "Candidatus Methanoliparia" Borrel et al. 2019

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.li.pa’ri.a. N.L. neut. n. Methanoliparum, a (Candidatus) generic name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanoliparia, the Methanoliparum class

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-tha-no-li-PA-ri-a, neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanoliparum" Borrel et al. 2019

Effective publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Methanobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2023

Assigned by: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 13972
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