Name: "Candidatus Methanoliparum" Borrel et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.li.pa’rum. N.L. neut. n. methanum, methane; N.L. pref. methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); Gr. masc. adj. liparos, fat, greasy; N.L. neut. n. Methanoliparum, methane-producing/consuming organism present in oil-rich environments

Gender: neuter (stem: Methanolipar-)

Type species: "Candidatus Methanoliparum thermophilum" Borrel et al. 2019

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Methanoliparaceae" Borrel et al. 2019. Publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Methanoliparales" Borrel et al. 2019. Publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.
  • 🧕 Borrel et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Methanoliparales" Borrel et al. 2019. Publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.
  • 🧍 See also Zhou et al. (2022). Publication: Zhou Z, Zhang CJ, Liu PF, Fu L, Laso-Perez R, Yang L, Bai LP, Li J, Yang M, Lin JZ, et al. Non-syntrophic methanogenic hydrocarbon degradation by an archaeal species. Nature 2022; 601:257-262.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanoliparum thermophilum" Borrel et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanoliparum whitmanii" Zhou et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanoliparum widdelii" Zhou et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methanoliparum zhangii" Zhou et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Methanoliparaceae" Borrel et al. 2019

Assigned by: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.

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