Name: "Candidatus Methanoperedenaceae" Haroon et al. 2013

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanoperedenaceae, the Methanoperedens family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanoperedens" Haroon et al. 2013

Effective publication: Haroon MF, Hu S, Shi Y, Imelfort M, Keller J, Hugenholtz P, Yuan Z, Tyson GW. Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to nitrate reduction in a novel archaeal lineage. Nature 2013; 500:567-570. 🇦🇺

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: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Methanoperedentaceae" corrig. Haroon et al. 2013

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Assigned by: 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. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 210
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