Name: Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Methanoplanus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanoplanaceae, the Methanoplanus family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methanoplanus Wildgruber et al. 1984

Effective publication: Wildgruber G, Thomm M, Stetter KO. In G. Wildgruber, M. Thomm, H. Konig, K. Ober, T. Ricchiuto, and K. O. Stetter. Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch. Microbiol. 1982; 132:31-36.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 14. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:270-271.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanofollaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Wildgruber et al. (1982) assigned the genus Methanoplanus Wildgruber et al. 1984 to this family. Publication: Wildgruber G, Thomm M, Stetter KO. In G. Wildgruber, M. Thomm, H. Konig, K. Ober, T. Ricchiuto, and K. O. Stetter. Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch. Microbiol. 1982; 132:31-36.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Goker M, Lu M, Fiebig A, Nolan M, Lapidus A, Tice H, Del Rio TG, Cheng JF, Han C, Tapia R, et al. Genome sequence of the mud-dwelling archaeon Methanoplanus limicola type strain (DSM 2279^T), reclassification of Methanoplanus petrolearius as Methanolacinia petrolearia and emended descriptions of the genera Methanoplanus and Methanolacinia. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:1076-1088.
  • ❗ Methanoplanaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🧍 Initial 16S rRNA-DNA hybridization experiments indicated that Methanoplanus Wildgruber et al. 1984 should be placed as a separate family, the Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984, within the order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981. However, later 16S rRNA sequence comparisons indicated that Methanoplanus species are closely related to members of the genera Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981, Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981, and Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990, which all belong to the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Therefore, the genus Methanoplanus should be placed within this family and the family Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984 should no longer be recognized. Publication: Huber H, Huber G, Stetter KO. Genus VI. Methanoplanus Wildgruber, Thomm and Stetter 1984, 270VP (Effective publication: Wildgruber, Thomm and Stetter in Wildgruber, Thomm, König, Ober, Ricchiuto and Stetter 1982, 36). In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 259-261.

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