Name: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilaceae" Op den Camp et al. 2009

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.thyl.a.ci.di.phi.la.ce’ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylacidiphilaceae, the Methylacidiphilum family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008

Original publication: Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:293-306.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Op den Camp et al. (2009) assigned this family to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:293-306.
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this family to the phylum Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023. Publication: Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim Y, Seo C, Strazzulli A, Kim SG, Rhee SK. Methylacidiphilum caldifontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic methane-oxidizing bacterium from an acidic geothermal environment, and descriptions of the family Methylacidiphilaceae fam. nov. and order Methylacidiphilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6085.
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023. Publication: Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim Y, Seo C, Strazzulli A, Kim SG, Rhee SK. Methylacidiphilum caldifontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic methane-oxidizing bacterium from an acidic geothermal environment, and descriptions of the family Methylacidiphilaceae fam. nov. and order Methylacidiphilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6085.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylacidiphiliaceae".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023.

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Record number: 199