Name: "Methanocaldococcus" Boone et al. 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.cal.do.coc’cus. N.L. masc. n. Caldococcus, a coccus existing in a hot environment; N.L. masc. n. Methanocaldococcus, type genus of the family

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Methanocaldococc-), me-t^ha-no-kal-do-KOK-kus

Original publication: Boone, R D, Whitman WB, Rouviere P. Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens. In: Ferry JG (eds), Methanogenesis, Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 35-80. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanocaldococcoccus"; "Methanocaldocococcus".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🖹 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: JCM: 1; ATCC: 1; NBRC: 1; OCM: 1; CIP: 1; DSM: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Human classification RG: not given - Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

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
    "Methanocaldococcus jannaschii" (Jones et al. 1984) Boone et al. 1993	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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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Record number: 12131