Name: Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no’lo.bus. 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); L. masc. n. lobus, ball lobe; N.L. masc. n. Methanolobus, methane (-producing) lobe

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Methanolob-), me-t^ha-NO-lo-bus

Type species: Methanolobus tindarius König and Stetter 1983

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: König H, Stetter KO. Isolation and characterization of Methanolobus tindarius, sp. nov., a coccoid methanogen growing only on methanol and methylamines. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1982; C3:478-490. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 10. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:438-440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mdhanolobw"; "Methanolobius"; "Methunolobus"; "Mtthanolobus".
  • 🖹 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. 🇺🇸
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Shen et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07864 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; OCM: 6; ATCC: 6; JCM: 4; BCRC: 3; NBRC: 3; B: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MELB" 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: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 14

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanolobus bombayensis Kadam et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus chelungpuianus Wu and Lai 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus halotolerans Shen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus mangrovi Zhou et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus oregonensis (Liu et al. 1990) Boone 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus profundi Mochimaru et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Methanolobus psychrophilus" Zhang et al. 2008	not validly published	preferred name
    Methanolobus psychrotolerans Chen et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus sediminis Zhou et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus siciliae Stetter and König 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methanolobus taylorii Oremland and Boone 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus tindarius König and Stetter 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus vulcani Stetter et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanolobus zinderi Doerfert et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Boone DR. Genus V. Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983, 439VP. 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. 283-287. 🇺🇸

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