Name: Methylohalobius Heyer et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. methylum, the methyl group; 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; Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. masc. n. Methylohalobius, salt-requiring, methyl-using bacterium

Gender: masculine (stem: Methylohalobi-)

Type species: Methylohalobius crimeensis Heyer et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Heyer J, Berger U, Hardt M, Dunfield PF. Methylohalobius crimeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, methanotrophic bacterium isolated from hypersaline lakes of Crimea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1817-1826.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Heyer et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984. Publication: Heyer J, Berger U, Hardt M, Dunfield PF. Methylohalobius crimeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, methanotrophic bacterium isolated from hypersaline lakes of Crimea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1817-1826.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylothalobius".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 The etymology cited in the paper by Heyer et al. 2005 is the following: N.L. neut. n. methyl, methylis the methyl group; Gr. n. hals halos, salt; Gr. masc. n. bios life; N.L. masc. n. Methylohalobius salt-requiring, methyl-using bacterium. However, with such an etymology the correct name should be Methylihalobius. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methylohalobius crimeensis Heyer et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2019

Assigned by: Tindall BJ. On the nomenclatural types of Methylothermus thermalis Tsubota et al. 2005, Methylothermus Tsubota et al. 2005 and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2014, their status under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and valid publication of the names Methylothermus gen. nov., Methylothermus subterraneus Hirayama et al. and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1890-1891.

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