Name: "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.mi.cro.bi’a. 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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Methanomicrobia" Brenner et al. 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanomicrobia" Brenner et al. 2005	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class "Methanomicrobia" Brenner et al. 2005. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵
  • 🚃 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".

Parent taxon: Methanobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2023

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024. 🇩🇪

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