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: masculine (stem: Methylaciditherm-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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 (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Methylacidithermus pantelleriensis" corrig. Picone et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not 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