Name: "Candidatus Methyloacida" Islam et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Gender: feminine (stem: Methyloacid-)

Type species: "Candidatus Methyloacida kamchatkensis" Islam et al. 2008

Original publication: Islam T, Jensen S, Reigstad LJ, Larsen O, Birkeland NK. Methane oxidation at 55 degrees C and pH 2 by a thermoacidophilic bacterium belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:300-304.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Methylacidiphilum Ratnadevi et al. 2023

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methylacidiphilum Ratnadevi et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Islam et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Islam T, Jensen S, Reigstad LJ, Larsen O, Birkeland NK. Methane oxidation at 55 degrees C and pH 2 by a thermoacidophilic bacterium belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:300-304.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Methylacidiphilum Ratnadevi et al. 2023. Publication: Ratnadevi CM, Erikstad H-A, Kruse T, Birkeland N-K. Methylacidiphilum kamchatkense gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely acidophilic and moderately thermophilic methanotroph belonging to the phylum Verrucomicrobiota. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; JCM: 1.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methyloacida kamchatkensis" Islam et al. 2008	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)

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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