Name: "Candidatus Methanourarchaeum" Hua et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.ur.ar.chae’um. N.L. neut. n. methanum, methane; German pref. ur-, primitive, original, referring to the deeply branching position of the organism in phylogenomic analyses; Gr. masc. adj. archaîos, ancient, also referring to Archaea; N.L. neut. n. Methanourarchaeum, the primitive methanogen [probably better: Methanopriscarchaeum]

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Methanourarchae-), me-t^ha-no-ur-ar-K^HA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Methanourarchaeum thermotelluricum" Hua et al. 2019

Original publication: Hua ZS, Wang YL, Evans PN, Qu YN, Goh KM, Rao YZ, Qi YL, Li YX, Huang MJ, Jiao JY, et al. Insights into the ecological roles and evolution of methyl-coenzyme M reductase-containing hot spring Archaea. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4574.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanourarchaum".
  • 🧍 The distinct name Methanogeoarchaeum from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanourarchaeum thermotelluricum" Hua et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Hadesarchaeaceae" corrig. Hua et al. 2019

Assigned by: Hua ZS, Wang YL, Evans PN, Qu YN, Goh KM, Rao YZ, Qi YL, Li YX, Huang MJ, Jiao JY, et al. Insights into the ecological roles and evolution of methyl-coenzyme M reductase-containing hot spring Archaea. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4574.

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