Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicales" corrig. Berghuis et al. 2019

Category: Order

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.me.thy.li.ca’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanomethylicales, the Methanomethylicus order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-tha-no-me-thy-li-KA-les, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Effective publication: Berghuis BA, Yu FB, Schulz F, Blainey PC, Woyke T, Quake SR. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:5037-5044. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicales" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Methanomethylicia" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170. 🇦🇺

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