Name: Methanothermobacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.ther.mo.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Methanothermobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanothermobacteraceae, family of the genus Methanothermobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-t^ha-no-t^her-mo-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanothermobacteraceae" Rinke et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000 to this family. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Wasserfallen A, Nolling J, Pfister P, Reeve J, Conway de Macario E. Phylogenetic analysis of 18 thermophilic Methanobacterium isolates supports the proposals to create a new genus, Methanothermobacter gen. nov., and to reclassify several isolates in three species, Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus comb. nov., Methanothermobacter wolfeii comb. nov., and Methanothermobacter marburgensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:43-53. 🇨🇭
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanothermobacteriaceae".
  • ❗ Methanothermobacteraceae 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).

Parent taxon: Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

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. — Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 43582