Name: Methylopila Doronina et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.thy.lo’pi.la. N.L. neut. n. methyl, the methyl group; L. fem. n. pila, ball or sphere; N.L. fem. n. Methylopila, methyl-using sphere

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Methylopil-), me-t^hy-LO-pi-la

Type species: Methylopila capsulata Doronina et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA, Krausova VI, Boulygina ES, Tourova TP. Methylopila capsulata gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel non-pigmented aerobic facultatively methylotrophic bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1313-1321.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methylopilaceae diCenzo et al. 2024. Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328.
  • 🧕 DiCenzo et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Methylopilaceae diCenzo et al. 2024. Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylophila"; "Methylophlia".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kaparullina et al. (2019). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 12; DSM: 8; CCUG: 3; CGMCC: 2; LMG: 2; ACCC: 1; ATCC: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methylopila capsulata Doronina et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila carotae Kaparullina et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila helvetica Doronina et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methylopila henanense Wang et al. 2015	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Methylopila henanensis corrig. Wang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila jiangsuensis Li et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila musalis Doronina et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila oligotropha Poroshina et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila turkensis corrig. Shmareva et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylopila turkiensis Shmareva et al. 2017	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Methylopila turkiensis" Agafonova et al. 2015	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Methylocystaceae Bowman 2006

Assigned by: Bowman JP. Family V. Methylocystaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 411-413.

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