Name: "Candidatus Methanoalium" Chadwick et al. 2022

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.a.li.um. N.L. pref. methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); L. neut. n. alium, garlic, somtimes incorrectly formed as neuter of alius; N.L. neut. n. Methanoalium, a different methane metabolizing organism

Gender: neuter (stem: Methanoali-)

Original publication: Chadwick GL, Skennerton CT, Laso-Perez R, Leu AO, Speth DR, Yu H, Morgan-Lang C, Hatzenpichler R, Goudeau D, Malmstrom R, et al. Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001508.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Methanophagaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022

Assigned by: Chadwick GL, Skennerton CT, Laso-Perez R, Leu AO, Speth DR, Yu H, Morgan-Lang C, Hatzenpichler R, Goudeau D, Malmstrom R, et al. Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001508.

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Record number: 35813