Name: Methanocella Sakai et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.cel’la. 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. fem. n. cella, a room, and in biology a cell; N.L. fem. n. Methanocella, a methane-producing cell

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Methanocell-), me-t^ha-no-KEL-la

Type species: Methanocella paludicola Sakai et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Methanocellia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the class Methanocellia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Sakai et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the order Methanocellales Sakai et al. 2008. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵
  • 🖹 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: 3; JCM: 2; NBRC: 2; CGMCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Methanocella spp. were previously known as uncultured archaeal group "rice cluster I" (RC-I). Publication: Conrad R, Erkel C, Liesack W. Rice Cluster I methanogens, an important group of Archaea producing greenhouse gas in soil. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2006; 17:262-267. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanocella arvoryzae Sakai et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocella conradii Lü and Lu 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocella paludicola Sakai et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008

Assigned by: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵

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