Name: Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.tri.cha.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Methanothrix, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanotrichaceae, the Methanothrix family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983

Effective publication: Akinyemi TS, Shao N, Whitman WB. Methanotrichaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2020, p. 1-2.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 202. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5096.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanotrichaceae" Oren 2014	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Akinyemi et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021. Publication: Akinyemi TS, Shao N, Whitman WB. Methanotrichales ord. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-2.
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021. Publication: 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002. Publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Family II. Methanosaetaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 289-294.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanothricaceae"; "Methanothrichaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; JCM: 6; VKM: 3; NBRC: 3; CGMCC: 2; ATCC: 2; BCRC: 1; CCRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanocrinis" Khomyakova et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 24689