Name: Methanosalsum Boone and Baker 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.sal.sum. 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. neut. perf. part. salsum, salted, salty; N.L. neut. n. Methanosalsum, the salty methane (bacterium)

Gender: neuter (stem: Methanosals-)

Type species: Methanosalsum zhilinae (Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone and Baker 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Boone DR, Baker CC. Genus VI Methanosalsum gen. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 287-289.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanosalsus" Boone et al. 1993	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988. Publication: Mathrani IM, Boone DR, Mah RA, Fox GE, Lau PP. Methanohalophilus zhilinae sp. nov., an alkaliphilic, halophilic, methylotrophic methanogen. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:139-142.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Methanosalsus" Boone et al. 1993. Publication: Boone, R D, Whitman WB, Rouviere P. Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens. In: Ferry JG (eds), Methanogenesis, Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 35-80.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanosalswn"; "Methanosalus".
  • 🖹 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 0.08127 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanosalsum natronophilum Sorokin et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanosalsum zhilinae (Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone and Baker 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Boone DR, Baker CC. Genus VI Methanosalsum gen. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 287-289.

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