Name: Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.cal.do.coc.cus. 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); L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; N.L. masc. n. coccus, coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Methanocaldococcus, a coccus producing methane at hyperthermophilic growth temperatures

Gender: masculine (stem: Methanocaldococc-)

Type species: Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Jones et al. 1984) Whitman 2002

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Whitman WB. Genus I. Methanocaldococcus gen. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 243-245.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

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

Parent taxon: Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Assigned by: Whitman WB, Boone DR, Koga Y. Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 242-246.

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