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

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.sar.ci.na. 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. sarcina, a package, bundle; N.L. fem. n. Methanosarcina, methane package, methane sarcina

Gender: feminine (stem: Methanosarcin-)

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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 under the ICNP, conserved name

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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Archaebacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 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.
  • Woese and Fox (1977) assigned this genus to the kingdom "Archaebacteria" Woese and Fox 1977. Publication: Woese CR, Fox GE. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1977; 74:5088-5090.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Alethanosarcina"; "Alethanosorcina"; "Mclhanosarcina"; "Mcthanosarcina"; "Metbanosarcina"; "Methanasarcina"; "Methancsarcina"; "Methanosacrina"; "Methanosamlna"; "Methanosamna"; "Methanosara"; "Methanosarcinaks"; "Methanosarcinia"; "Methanosarcirza"; "Methanosarcivta"; "Methanosarcuba"; "Methanosardna"; "Methanosareina"; "Methanosaricina"; "Methanosaroina"; "Methanosdrcina"; "Methanosmrina"; "Methanosurcina"; "Methansarcina"; "Methonosarcina"; "Methunosarcina"; "Mezhanosarcina"; "Mtthanosarcina". — 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: Boone DR, Whitman WB. Proposal of Minimal Standards for Describing New Taxa of Methanogenic Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1988; 38:212-219.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Shimizu et al. (2015), Ganzert et al. (2014). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 16; JCM: 8; ATCC: 6; VKM: 4; NBRC: 4.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MESR" 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.
  • Conserved name (Judicial Opinion 63). Methanosarcina barkeri Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) is the new type species of the genus Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 emend. Barker 1956 (Approved Lists 1980), nom. cons., emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984. Publication: 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.

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