Name: "Candidatus Methanohalarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2021

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.hal.ar.chae.a.ce’ae. N.L. neut. n. Methanohalarchaeum, type genus of the family (Candidatus); L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanohalarchaeaceae, the Methanohalarchaeum family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum" Sorokin et al. 2017

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: Methanonatronarchaeaceae Sorokin et al. 2018

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanonatronarchaeaceae Sorokin et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Methanonatronarchaeales Sorokin et al. 2018. 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 genus "Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum" Sorokin et al. 2017 to this family. 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 genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanonatronarchaeaceae Sorokin et al. 2018. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY, Abbas B, Makarova KS, Rijpstra WIC, Koenen M, Sinninghe Damste JS, Galinski EA, Koonin EV, van Loosdrecht MCM. Methanonatronarchaeum thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum thermophilum', extremely halo(natrono)philic methyl-reducing methanogens from hypersaline lakes comprising a new euryarchaeal class Methanonatronarchaeia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2199-2208.

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