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Family "Methanoculleaceae"
Name: "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2021
Etymology: Me.tha.no.cul.le.a’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Methanoculleus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanoculleaceae, the Methanoculleus family
Pronunciation, gender: me-tha-no-kul-le-A-ke-a͡e, feminine
Type genus: Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990
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: Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Methanofollaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981.
Publication:
Dianou D, Miyaki T, Asakawa S, Morii H, Nagaoka K, Oyaizu H, Matsumoto S. Methanoculleus chikugoensis sp. nov., a novel methanogenic archaeon isolated from paddy field soil in Japan, and DNA-DNA hybridization among Methanoculleus species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1663-1669.
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🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981.
Publication:
Dianou D, Miyaki T, Asakawa S, Morii H, Nagaoka K, Oyaizu H, Matsumoto S. Methanoculleus chikugoensis sp. nov., a novel methanogenic archaeon isolated from paddy field soil in Japan, and DNA-DNA hybridization among Methanoculleus species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1663-1669.
Parent taxon: Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
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. — Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Family I. Methanomicrobiaceae Barker 1956, 15AL emend. Balch and Wolfe in Balch, Fox, Magrum, Woese and Wolfe 1979, 268. 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. 247.
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Record number: 45447
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