Name: "Methanotrichaceae" Oren 2014

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

Original publication: Oren A. The Family Methanotrichaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes – Firmicutes and Tenericutes, 4th edition, Springer, Berlin, 2014, p. 297-306.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021. 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.
  • 🚃 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.
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanothricaceae"; "Methanothrichaceae".

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