Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylia" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanomethylia, the Methanomethyliales class

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Effective publication: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicia" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Parent taxon: Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021

Assigned by: 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. 🇦🇺

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