Name: "Candidatus Methanophagales" Borrel et al. 2019

Category: Order

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.pha.ga’les. N.L. fem. n. Methanophaga, a (yet to be described) (Candidatus) generic name; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanophagales, the Methanophaga order

Gender: feminine

Original publication: Borrel G, Adam PS, McKay LJ, Chen LX, Sierra-Garcia IN, Sieber CMK, Letourneur Q, Ghozlane A, Andersen GL, Li WJ, et al. Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:603-613.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanophagales" Adam et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Vulcano et al. (2022) assigned the family "Candidatus Veteromethanophagaceae" Vulcano et al. 2022 to this order. Publication: Vulcano F, Hahn CJ, Roerdink D, Dahle H, Reeves EP, Wegener G, Steen IH, Stokke R. Phylogenetic and functional diverse ANME-1 thrive in Arctic hydrothermal vents. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2022; 98:0.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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
    "Methanophagaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Methanobacteriota, not assigned to class]

Assigned by: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024.

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Record number: 11838