Name: Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Methylophilus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylophilaceae, the Methylophilus family

Type genus: Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987

Effective publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Methylophilaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 770.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 107. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987	validly published	correct name
    Methylotenera Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
    Methylovorus Govorukhina and Trotsenko 1991	validly published	correct name
    Novimethylophilus Lv et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Pseudomethylobacillus Sheu et al. 2019	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.

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