Name: "Methanosarcinia" Rinke et al. 2021

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.sar.ci’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Methanosarcina, type genus of the type order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Methanosarcinia, the class of the order Methanosarcinales [incorrectly formed: genus should have been the type]

Gender: neuter

Type order: Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Original publication: 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanocellia" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanocellia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this class to the phylum "Halobacteriota" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: 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.
  • 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021 to this class. Publication: 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.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🚃 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.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Halomebacteria 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 "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003. 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 "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003. Publication: Brenner DJ, Krieg N, Staley JT. BERGEY’S MANUAL OF Systematic Bacteriology (2. Edt.), Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part A: Introductory Essays. Springer, New York, 2005.

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