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Genus Methylarcula
Name: Methylarcula Doronina et al. 2000
Etymology: Me.thyl.ar.cu’la. N.L. neut. n. methyl, methyl group; L. fem. dim. n. arcula, small box; N.L. fem. dim. n. Methylarcula, methyl-using small box
Gender: feminine (stem: Methylarcul-)
Type species: Methylarcula marina Doronina et al. 2000
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA, Tourova TP. Methylarcula marina gen. nov., sp. nov. and Methylarcula terricola sp. nov.: novel aerobic, moderately halophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacteria from coastal saline environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1849-1859. 
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1955.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161.
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🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Paracoccus Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Doronina NV, Shmareva MN, Kaparullina EN, Vasilenko OV, Tarlachkov SV, et al. Reclassification of Methylarcula marina Doronina et al. 2000 as Paracoccus methylarcula nom. nov. Microbiology 2020; 89:197-204.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylarcufa"; "Methyloarcula".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 2; CCUG: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Methylarcula marina Doronina et al. 2000 validly published under the ICNP correct name Methylarcula terricola Doronina et al. 2000 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022
Assigned by:
Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.
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Record number: 517278
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