Name: "Methylacidimicrobium" Van Teeseling et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.thyl.a.ci.di.mi.cro’bi.um. N.L. neut. n. methyl, the methyl group; L. neut. adj. acidum, acid; from L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Methylacidimicrobium, methyl-using microbe living in an acid environment

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Methylacidimicrobi-), me-t^hyl-a-ki-di-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: "Methylacidimicrobium fagopyrum" Van Teeseling et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: van Teeseling MC, Pol A, Harhangi HR, van der Zwart S, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ, van Niftrik L. Expanding the verrucomicrobial methanotrophic world: description of three novel species of Methylacidimicrobium gen. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:6782-6791. 🇳🇱

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the phylum "Verrucomicrobiota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Van Teeseling et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010. Publication: van Teeseling MC, Pol A, Harhangi HR, van der Zwart S, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ, van Niftrik L. Expanding the verrucomicrobial methanotrophic world: description of three novel species of Methylacidimicrobium gen. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:6782-6791. 🇳🇱
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylacidimicro".

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Methylacidimicrobium cyclopophantes" van Teeseling et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Methylacidimicrobium fagopyrum" Van Teeseling et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Methylacidimicrobium tartarophylax" Van Teeseling et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Methylacidimicrobium thermophilum" Picone et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023

Assigned by: Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim Y, Seo C, Strazzulli A, Kim SG, Rhee SK. Methylacidiphilum caldifontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic methane-oxidizing bacterium from an acidic geothermal environment, and descriptions of the family Methylacidiphilaceae fam. nov. and order Methylacidiphilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6085. 🇰🇷

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