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Name: Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990
Etymology: Me.tha.no.sae.ta. 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. fem. n. saeta, bristle; N.L. fem. n. Methanosaeta, methane (-producing) bristle
Gender: feminine (stem: Methanosaet-)
Type species: Methanosaeta concilii (Patel 1985) Patel and Sprott 1990
Valid publication:
Patel GB, Sprott GD. Methanosaeta concilii gen. nov., sp. nov. ("Methanothrix concilii") and Methanosaeta thermoacetophila nom. rev., comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1990; 40:79-82.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Correct name: Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983
Name | Kind |
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Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983 | heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP |
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 6
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Methanosaeta concilii (Patel 1985) Patel and Sprott 1990 | validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name | synonym |
Methanosaeta harundinacea Ma et al. 2006 | validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name | synonym |
"Methanosaeta pelagica" Mori et al. 2012 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
"Methanosaeta soehngenii" Maupin-Furlow and Ferry 1996 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
Methanosaeta thermoacetophila (Nozhevnikova and Chudina 1988) Patel and Sprott 1990 | validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name | synonym |
Methanosaeta thermophila (Kamagata et al. 1992) Boone and Kamagata 1998 | validly published under the ICNP, rejected name | synonym |
Parent taxon: Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021
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Record number: 517079