Name: "Candidatus Methanogranum" Iino et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.gra’num. N.L. pref. methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); L. neut. n. granum, grain, seed; N.L. neut. n. Methanogranum, a methane-producing grain-like organism

Gender: neuter (stem: Methanogran-)

Type species: "Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola" Iino et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Iino T, Tamaki H, Tamazawa S, Ueno Y, Ohkuma M, Suzuki K, Igarashi Y, Haruta S. Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a novel methanogen from the anaerobic digested sludge, and proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a methanogenic lineage of the class Thermoplasmata. Microbes Environ 2013; 28:244-250.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola" Iino et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanogranum gryphiswaldense" Weil et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Methanomassiliicoccaceae Iino et al. 2013

Assigned by: Iino T, Tamaki H, Tamazawa S, Ueno Y, Ohkuma M, Suzuki K, Igarashi Y, Haruta S. Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a novel methanogen from the anaerobic digested sludge, and proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a methanogenic lineage of the class Thermoplasmata. Microbes Environ 2013; 28:244-250.

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Record number: 21790