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; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. n. Methanomethylophilus, methane producing organism loving methyl groups

Gender: masculine (stem: Methanomethylophil-)

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

Original 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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

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: "Methanomethylophylus".
  • 🎰 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 (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Borrel et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Methanomethylophilaceae Borrel et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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