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Family Methanofollaceae
Name: Methanofollaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024
Etymology: Me.tha.no.fol.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Methanofollis, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanofollaceae, Methanofollis family of the genus Methanofollis
Pronunciation, gender: me-tha-no-fol-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine
Type genus: Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999
Effective 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. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Correct name: Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, not validly published Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024 heterotypic 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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🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999 to this family.
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.
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🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981.
Publication:
Zellner G, Boone DR, Keswani J, Whitman WB, Woese CR, Hagelstein A, Tindall BJ, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Methanogenium tationis and Methanogenium liminatans as Methanofollis tationis gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methanofollis liminatans comb. nov. and description of a new strain of Methanofollis liminatans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:247-255.
- ❗ Methanofollaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
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🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999 to this family.
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.
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: 43583
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