Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.me.thy.li.ca’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanomethylicaceae, the family of the genus Methanomethylicus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-t^ha-no-me-t^hy-li-KA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Effective publication: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliaceae" Berghuis et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Vanwonterghem et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Candidatus Methanosuratincola" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016 to this family. Publication: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanomethyliciaceae".
  • 🧍 See also Berghuis et al. (2019). Publication: Berghuis BA, Yu FB, Schulz F, Blainey PC, Woyke T, Quake SR. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:5037-5044. 🇺🇸

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Methanomethylicales" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Assigned by: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170. 🇦🇺

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