Genus Methanomicrobium

Name: Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.mi.cro’bi.um. 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); N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; from Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); from Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Methanomicrobium, methane (-producing) small life (-form)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Methanomicrobi-), me-t^ha-no-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Methanomicrobium mobile (Paynter and Hungate 1968) Balch and Wolfe 1981

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 6. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:215-218.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.
  • 🧕 Balch et al. (1979) assigned this genus to the order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Paynter MJ, Hungate RE. Characterization of Methanobacterium mobilis, sp. n., isolated from the bovine rumen. J Bacteriol 1968; 95:1943-1951.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mcthanomicrobium"; "Methanomicrobial"; "Methanomicrobimn"; "Methanomieobium"; "Methanomierobium"; "Metkanomicrobium".
  • 🖹 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. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1988; 38:212-219. 🇺🇸
  • 🖹 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 authority of the taxon name (Balch and Wolfe) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Balch et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; NBRC: 1; JCM: 1; OCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MEMI" 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: 1
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
    Methanomicrobium antiquum Mochimaru et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methanomicrobium mobile (Paynter and Hungate 1968) Balch and Wolfe 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanomicrobium paynteri Rivard et al. 1984	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296.

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