Name:Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
Category: Genus
Proposed as: gen. nov.
Etymology:
Me.tha.no.bac.te.ri.um. N.L. neut. n.methanum, methane; from French masc. n.méthyle; from Chem. neut. suff.-ane; N.L. pref.methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); N.L. neut. n.bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n.Methanobacterium, methane (-producing) rod
Effective publication:
Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Nomenclatural type of the order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981.Publication:
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.
Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Spirillaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
Kluyver and Van Niel (1936) assigned this genus to the tribe Pseudomonadeae Kluyver and Van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
Woese and Fox (1977) assigned this genus to the kingdom "Archaebacteria" Woese and Fox 1977.Publication:
Woese CR, Fox GE. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1977; 74:5088-5090.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Afethanobacterium"; "Iethanobacterium"; "Melhanobacterium"; "Methabacterium"; "Methanabacterium"; "Methanbacterium"; "Methanobacte"; "Methanobacter"; "Methanobacteritum"; "Methanobacteriurn"; "Methanobacterlum"; "Methanobacterum"; "Methanobactmum"; "Methanobactnium"; "Methanobacttrium"; "Methanobaeterium"; "Methanobatterium"; "Methanohacterium"; "Methmobacterium"; "Methunobacterium"; "Metkanobacterium"; "Mlethanobacterium"; "Mnhanobacterium"; "Mtthanobacterium".
Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988.Publication:
Boone DR, Whitman WB. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1988; 38:212-219.
Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988.Publication:
D.r. Boone WBW. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1988; 38:212-219.
Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2023.Publication:
Prakash O, Dodsworth JA, Dong X, Ferry JG, L'Haridon S, Imachi H, Kamagata Y, Rhee SK, Sagar I, Shcherbakova V, et al. Proposed minimal standards for description of methanogenic archaea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5500.
The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 43; ATCC: 20; JCM: 18; VKM: 14; NBRC: 12; CGMCC: 3.
Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MEBT" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 25 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 35 Total number of child taxa: 42