Name: "Methanomicrobia" Brenner et al. 2005

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.mi.cro.bi’a. N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanomicrobiales, type order of the class, dropping the ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanomicrobia, the class Methanomicrobiales

Gender: neuter

Type order: Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Original publication: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM. Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Methanothermea Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. 🇬🇧
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Methanococci Boone 2002. Publication: Boone DR. Class II. Methanococci class. nov. 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. 235-236. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Metanomicrobia"; "Methanomicro".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 69; OCM: 32; ATCC: 28; NBRC: 21; JCM: 16; BCRC: 13; VKM: 3; CGMCC: 3; CCRC: 2; UNIQEM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanoflorentales" Woodcroft et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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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