Name: "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex" Pol et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: A.ci.di.me.thy.lo.si.lex. N.L. masc./fem. n. Acidimethylosilex

Type species: "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007

Original publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Pol et al. (2007) assigned this genus to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008. Publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008. Publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 521818