Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanomethylicaceae, the Methanomethylicus family

Gender: feminine

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

Original 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.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Methanomethyliaceae" Berghuis et al. 2019	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanomethyliciaceae".

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

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. — 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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