Name: Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.ha.lo’phi.lus. 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; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. n. Methanohalophilus, salt-loving methanogen

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Methanohalophil-), me-t^ha-no-ha-LO-p^hi-lus

Type species: Methanohalophilus mahii Paterek and Smith 1988

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Paterek JR, Smith PH. Methanohalophilus mahii gen. nov., sp. nov., a methylotrophic halophilic methanogen. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:122-123.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Katayama et al. 2014 Katayama T, Yoshioka H, Mochimaru H, Meng XY, Muramoto Y, Usami J, Ikeda H, Kamagata Y, Sakata S. Methanohalophilus levihalophilus sp. nov., a slightly halophilic, methylotrophic methanogen isolated from natural gas-bearing deep aquifers, and emended description of the genus Methanohalophilus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2089-2093. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2930-2931.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Melhanohalophilus"; "Methanhalophilus"; "Methanihalophilus"; "Methannohalophilus"; "Methanobalophilus"; "Methanohafophilus"; "Methanohalopltilus"; "Methanohaluphilus"; "Methanophilus".
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988. Publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1988; 38:212-219. 🇺🇸
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988. Publication: D.r. Boone WBW. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1988; 38:212-219. 🇺🇸
  • 🖹 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 0.08164 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 8; OCM: 6; ATCC: 5; NBRC: 1; UBOCC: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MEHP" 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: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Methanohalophilus euhalobius" Davidova et al. 1997	not validly published	preferred name
    Methanohalophilus halophilus (Zhilina 1984) Wilharm et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalophilus levihalophilus Katayama et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalophilus mahii Paterek and Smith 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalophilus oregonense Liu et al. 1990	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Methanohalophilus oregonensis corrig. Liu et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methanohalophilus portucalensis Boone et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalophilus profundi L'Haridon et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanohalophilus zhilinae Mathrani et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Paterek JR, Smith PH. Methanohalophilus mahii gen. nov., sp. nov., a methylotrophic halophilic methanogen. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:122-123.

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