Genus "Methanoignis"

Name: "Methanoignis" Boone et al. 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.i.gnis. L. masc. n. ignis, fire (also as genitive); N.L. masc. n. Methanoignis

Gender: masculine (stem: Methanoign-)

Type species: "Methanoignis igneus" (Burggraf et al. 1990) Boone et al. 1993

Original publication: Boone, R D, Whitman WB, Rouviere P. Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens. In: Ferry JG (eds), Methanogenesis, Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 35-80.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methanotorris Whitman 2002

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

Parent taxon: Methanocaldococcaceae Whitman et al. 2002

Assigned by: Whitman WB, Boone DR, Koga Y. Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 242-246.

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Record number: 40253
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