Name: "Methylomonadaceae" Leadbetter 1974

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Meth.yl.o.mo.na’da.ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Methylomonas, a genus of bacteria; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylomonadaceae, the Methylomonas family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984

Original publication: Leadbetter ER. Family Methylomonadaceae. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p. 267-269.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Romanovskaya (1984) assigned the genus "Methylovarius" Romanovskaya 1984 to this family. Publication: Romanovskaya VA. Methylovarius gen. nov., a new genus. Mikrobiologiia 1984; 53:777.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984. Publication: Whittenbury R, Krieg NR. Family Methylococcaceae. In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 256-261.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Alethylomonadaceae"; "Methyfomonadaceae"; "Methylomonadacea"; "Methylomonddaceae"; "Methylomonodaceae".

Parent taxon: Methylococcales Bowman 2005

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. — Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.

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