Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicia" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.me.thy.li’ci.a. N.L. masc. n. Methanomethylicus, a (Candidatus) methane-producing organism; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanomethylicia, the Methanomethylicus class

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Candidatus Methanomethyliales" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Original 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: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanomethylia" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Vanwonterghem et al. (2016) assigned this class to the phylum "Candidatus Methanomethylicota" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016. 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.

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: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanohydrogenales" Berghuis et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methanohydrogenicales" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanomediales" Berghuis et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliales" Berghuis et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliales" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicales" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicales" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methanomethyloarchaeales" Hua et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanomethylovorales" Hua et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

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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Record number: 21942