Name: "Meganemaceae" McIlroy et al. 2015

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.ga.nem.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Meganema, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Meganemaceae, the family of Meganema (sic)

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Meganema Thomsen et al. 2006

Original publication: McIlroy SJ, Lapidus A, Thomsen TR, Han J, Haynes M, Lobos E, Huntemann M, Pati A, Ivanova NN, Markowitz V, et al. High quality draft genome sequence of Meganema perideroedes str. Gr1^T and a proposal for its reclassification to the family Meganemaceae fam. nov. Stand Genomic Sci 2015; 10:23.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Preferred name: "Meganemataceae" corrig. McIlroy et al. 2015

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Meganemataceae" corrig. McIlroy et al. 2015	corrected spelling of name, not validly published
    Neomegalonemataceae Hördt et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Oren A. On names of genera of prokaryotes that are later homonyms of generic names with standing in the zoological or the botanical nomenclature. Proposal of Neomegalonema gen. nov. and Neomegalonema perideroedes comb. nov. as replacements for the prokaryotic generic name Meganema and the species name Meganema perideroedes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4276-4278.

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Record number: 228