Name: "Candidatus Methylacidithermus" Picone et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.thyl.a.ci.di.ther’mus. N.L. neut. n. methylum, the methyl group; L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. n. Methylacidithermus, an organism that uses methane under acidic and hot conditions

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Methylaciditherm-), me-t^hyl-a-ki-di-T^HER-mus

Type species: "Candidatus Methylacidithermus pantelleriensis" corrig. Picone et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Picone N, Blom P, Hogendoorn C, Frank J, van Alen T, Pol A, Gagliano AL, Jetten MSM, D'Alessandro W, Quatrini P, et al. Metagenome Assembled Genome of a Novel Verrucomicrobial Methanotroph From Pantelleria Island. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:666929. 🇳🇱

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methylacidithermus pantelleriae" Picone et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Methylacidithermus pantelleriensis" corrig. Picone et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct 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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Record number: 35557