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

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

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

Gender: feminine

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

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "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	preferred name (not 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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