Family Methylophilaceae

Name: Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.thy.lo.phi.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Methylophilus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylophilaceae, the Methylophilus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-t^hy-lo-p^hi-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boden et al. (2017) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Methylophilales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order III. Methylophilales 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 C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 770. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylophilacaea"; "Methylophiliaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lv et al. (2020), Kalyuzhnaya et al. (2012). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 20; VKM: 19; CCUG: 8; NCIMB: 7; JCM: 6; ATCC: 5; KCTC: 3; NBRC: 3; LMG: 2; BCRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Methylopumilus" Salcher et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Methyloradius Miyadera et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylotenera Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylovorus Govorukhina and Trotsenko 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Novimethylophilus Lv et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudomethylobacillus Sheu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spirillales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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