Name: "Candidatus Methanofishera" Russell et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.fi.she.ra. N.L. fem. n. Methanofischera, methanopertaining to methane; N.L. fem. n. Methanofishera, a methane-using organism named after Charles Fisher who has worked on the bathymodiolin deep-sea symbioses throughout his career and contributed significant knowledge to the field about their biology

Gender: feminine (stem: Methanofisher-)

Type species: "Candidatus Methanofishera endochildressiae" Russell et al. 2020

Original publication: Russell SL, Pepper-Tunick E, Svedberg J, Byrne A, Ruelas Castillo J, Vollmers C, Beinart RA, Corbett-Detig R. Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008935.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Russell et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Russell SL, Pepper-Tunick E, Svedberg J, Byrne A, Ruelas Castillo J, Vollmers C, Beinart RA, Corbett-Detig R. Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008935.

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
    "Candidatus Methanofishera endochildressiae" Russell et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984

Assigned by: Russell SL, Pepper-Tunick E, Svedberg J, Byrne A, Ruelas Castillo J, Vollmers C, Beinart RA, Corbett-Detig R. Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008935.

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Record number: 28499