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: 68; ATCC: 28; NBRC: 19; JCM: 15; BCRC: 12; CGMCC: 3; CCRC: 2; VKM: 2.

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	preferred name (not 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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