Name: Methylobacillus Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.thy.lo.ba.cil.lus. N.L. neut. n. methylum, the methyl radical; from French masc. n. méthyle; from French masc. n. méthylène; from Gr. neut. n. methy, wine; from Gr. fem. n. hylê, wood; N.L. neut. n. methyl, pertaining to the methyl radical; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Methylobacillus, methyl rodlet

Gender: masculine (stem: Methylobacill-)

Type species: Methylobacillus glycogenes Yordy and Weaver 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Yordy JR, Weaver TL. Methylobacillus: a new genus of obligately methylotrophic bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1977; 27:247-255.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8

Parent taxon: Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Methylophilaceae 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. 770.

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