Name: Methanomethylovorans Lomans et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.me.thy.lo’vo.rans. N.L. neut. n. methanum, methane; N.L. neut. n. methylum, methyl; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. fem. n. Methanomethylovorans, methane producing, methyl group consuming

Gender: feminine (stem: Methanomethylovorant-)

Type species: Methanomethylovorans hollandica Lomans et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lomans BP, Maas R, Luderer R, Op den Camp HJ, Pol A, van der Drift C, Vogels GD. Isolation and characterization of Methanomethylovorans hollandica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from freshwater sediment, a methylotrophic methanogen able to grow on dimethyl sulfide and methanethiol. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:3641-3650.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 96. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:307-308.

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: "Methanomethylovo"; "Methanometylovorans".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2023. Publication: Prakash O, Dodsworth JA, Dong X, Ferry JG, L'Haridon S, Imachi H, Kamagata Y, Rhee SK, Sagar I, Shcherbakova V, et al. Proposed minimal standards for description of methanogenic archaea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5500.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07977 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 1; JCM: 1; KCTC: 1; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 The gender of the generic name is not provided in the effective publication. However, the specific epithet hollandica is an adjective in the feminine gender and Methanomethylovorans must be in the feminine gender. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 96. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:307-308.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanomethylovorans hollandica Lomans et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanomethylovorans thermophila Jiang et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanomethylovorans uponensis Cha et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Cha IT, Min UG, Kim SJ, Yim KJ, Roh SW, Rhee SK. Methanomethylovorans uponensis sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen isolated from wetland sediment. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1005-1012.

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Record number: 516051