Name: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum" Hou et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.thyl.a.ci.di’phi.lum. N.L. neut. n. methyl, pertaining to the methyl group; L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; N.L. neut. adj. suff. -philum, loving; from Gr. neut. adj. philon, friend; N.L. neut. n. Methylacidiphilum, a methyl- and acid loving organism

Gender: neuter (stem: Methylacidiphil-)

Type species: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum infernorum" Hou et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hou S, Makarova KS, Saw JH, Senin P, Ly BV, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Galperin MY, Omelchenko MV, et al. Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biol Direct 2008; 3:26.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex" Pol et al. 2007	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Methylacidiphilaceae" Op den Camp et al. 2009. Publication: Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:293-306.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Methylacidiphilales" Op den Camp et al. 2009. Publication: Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:293-306.
  • 🧕 Hou et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the order "Methylacidiphilales". Publication: Hou S, Makarova KS, Saw JH, Senin P, Ly BV, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Galperin MY, Omelchenko MV, et al. Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biol Direct 2008; 3:26.
  • 🧕 Hou et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Hou S, Makarova KS, Saw JH, Senin P, Ly BV, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Galperin MY, Omelchenko MV, et al. Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biol Direct 2008; 3:26.
  • 🧕 Op den Camp et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Methylacidiphilales" Op den Camp et al. 2009. Publication: Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:293-306.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methyacidiphilum"; "Metylacidiphilum".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Methylacidiphilum Awala et al. 2023.
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Methylacidiphilum Ratnadevi et al. 2023.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 2; JCM: 2.

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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum" Pol et al. 2007	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum infernorum" Op den Camp et al. 2009	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum infernorum" Hou et al. 2008	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum kamchatkense" Erikstad et al. 2012	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum kamchatkense" Op den Camp et al. 2009	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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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