Name: Methanohalobium Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.ha.lo.bi.um. 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); Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Methanohalobium, methane-producing organism living in salt

Gender: neuter (stem: Methanohalobi-)

Type species: Methanohalobium evestigatum corrig. Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhilina TN, Zavarzin GA. Methanohalobium evestigatus, n. gen., n. sp. The extremely halophylic methanogenic Archaebacterium. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 1987; 293:464-468.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 24. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:136-137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Metbanobalobium"; "Methanobalobium"; "Methanohalohium".
  • 🖹 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08347 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; DSM: 2.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MEHB" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanohalobium evestigatum corrig. Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalobium evestigatus Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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