Name: Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.sar.ci.na’les. N.L. fem. n. Methanosarcina, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanosarcinales, the Methanosarcina order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: me-t^ha-no-sar-ki-NA-les, feminine

Type genus: Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 268-294. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanotrichales" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanotrichales Akinyemi et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Rinke et al. 2021 Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959. 🇦🇺
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 families in the order.
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 families from the order.
    • 🧍 As of 2023-02-16 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Methanosarcinia" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this order to the class Methanococci Boone 2002. Publication: Boone DR. Class II. Methanococci class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 235-236. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this order to the class "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003. Publication: Brenner DJ, Krieg N, Staley JT. BERGEY’S MANUAL OF Systematic Bacteriology (2. Edt.), Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part A: Introductory Essays. Springer, New York, 2005. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this order to the class Halomebacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Sakai et al. (2008) assigned this order to the class "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003. Publication: Sakai S, Imachi H, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:929-936. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002 to this order. Publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 268-294. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 268-294. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Chadwick et al. (2022) assigned the family "Candidatus Methanocomedenaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022 to this order. Publication: Chadwick GL, Skennerton CT, Laso-Perez R, Leu AO, Speth DR, Yu H, Morgan-Lang C, Hatzenpichler R, Goudeau D, Malmstrom R, et al. Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001508. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methanoarcinales"; "Methanosarcianales"; "Methanosarciniales".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 74; JCM: 37; OCM: 30; ATCC: 26; NBRC: 15; VKM: 8; CGMCC: 5; BCRC: 4; KCTC: 2; B: 1.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 268-294". Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Methanocomedenaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Methanocomedentaceae" corrig. Chadwick et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Methanogasteraceae" Chadwick et al. 2022	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Methanogastraceae" corrig. Chadwick et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Methanoperedenaceae" Haroon et al. 2013	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Methanoperedentaceae" corrig. Haroon et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Methanosarcinales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    "Methanotrichaceae" Oren 2014	not validly published	synonym
    Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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