Name: Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. methanum, methane; from French masc. n. méthyle; from Chem. suff. -ane; N.L. pref. methano-, pertaining to methane; L. fem. n. sarcina, a package, bundle; N.L. fem. n. Methanosarcina, methane package, methane sarcina

Gender: feminine

Type species: Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II. 1936; 94:369-403.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Barker 1956 Barker HA. Bacterial fermentations. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1956. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
  • Mah and Kuhn 1984 Mah RA, Kuhn DA. Rejection of the type species of Methanosarcina methanica (Approved Lists, 1980), conservation of the genus Methanosarcina with Methanosarcina barkeri (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species, and emendation of the genus Methanosarcina. Request for an opinion. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:266-267.
  • Ni et al. 1994 Ni S, Woese CR, Aldrich HC, Boone DR. Transfer of Methanolobus siciliae to the genus Methanosarcina, naming it Methanosarcina siciliae, and emendation of the genus Methanosarcina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:357-359. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:596.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Methanosarcinaceae 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 Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002. Publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. 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. 268-294.
  • Kluyver and Van Niel (1936) assigned this genus to the tribe "Micrococceae". Publication: Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Methanasarcina".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Methanosarcinae".
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1988. Publication: D. R. Boone WBW. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1988; 38:212-219.
  • Recommended reviewers for taxonomic proposals in this group are the corresponding authors of Shimizu et al. (2015), Ganzert et al. (2014).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 17

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanosarcina acetivorans Sowers et al. 1986	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina baltica von Klein et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina flavescens Kern et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina frisia (Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 1989	validly published	synonym
    Methanosarcina horonobensis Shimizu et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina lacustris Simankova et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina mazei corrig. (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina mazeii (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984	orthographic variant	misspelling
    Methanosarcina methanica (Smit 1930) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published, rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Methanosarcina semesiae Lyimo et al. 2000	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina siciliae (Stetter and König 1989) Ni et al. 1994	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina soligelidi Wagner et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina spelaei Ganzert et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina subterranea Shimizu et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina thermophila Zinder et al. 1985	validly published	correct name
    Methanosarcina vacuolata Zhilina and Zavarzin 1987	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinaceae 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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