Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus" Borrel et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.me.thy.lo’phi.lus. N.L. pref. methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); N.L. neut. n. methyl, pertaining to the methyl group; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, loving; N.L. masc. n. Methanomethylophilus, methane producing organism loving methyl groups

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

Type species: "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvi" corrig. Borrel et al. 2012

Effective publication: Borrel G, Harris HM, Tottey W, Mihajlovski A, Parisot N, Peyretaillade E, Peyret P, Gribaldo S, O'Toole PW, Brugere JF. Genome sequence of "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Mx1201, a methanogenic archaeon from the human gut belonging to a seventh order of methanogens. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:6944-6945.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methanomethylophilus Borrel et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanomethylophilus Borrel et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Methanomethylophilaceae" Gaci et al. 2014. Publication: Gaci N, Borrel G, Tottey W, O'Toole PW, Brugere JF. Archaea and the human gut: new beginning of an old story. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20:16062-16078.
  • 🧕 Borrel et al. (2012) assigned this genus to the phylum "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Borrel G, Harris HM, Tottey W, Mihajlovski A, Parisot N, Peyretaillade E, Peyret P, Gribaldo S, O'Toole PW, Brugere JF. Genome sequence of "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Mx1201, a methanogenic archaeon from the human gut belonging to a seventh order of methanogens. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:6944-6945.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanomethylophlilus"; "Methanomethylophylus".
  • ❗ "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus" is the pro-correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CIP: 2; JCM: 2.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvi" corrig. Borrel et al. 2012	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Borrel et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Methanomethylophilaceae Borrel et al. 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Borrel G, Fadhlaoui K, Ben Hania W, Gaci N, Pehau-Arnaudet G, Chaudhary PP, Vandekerckove P, Ballet N, Alric M, O'Toole PW, et al. Methanomethylophilus alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Hydrogenotrophic Methyl-Reducing Methanogenic Archaea of the Order Methanomassiliicoccales Isolated from the Human Gut and Proposal of the Novel Family Methanomethylophilaceae fam. nov. Microorganisms 2023; 11:0.

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Record number: 21792