Name: "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanomicrobia, the Methanomicrobiales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Original publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG. Taxonomic Outline of the Procaryotes. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Release 4.0. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Methanococci Boone 2002. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008	validly published	correct name
    Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981	validly published	correct name
    [Methanomicrobia, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG. Taxonomic Outline of the Procaryotes. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Release 4.0. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.

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