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Order Methylococcales
Name: Methylococcales Bowman 2005
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Methylococcus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylococcales, the Methylococcus order
Type genus: Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
Effective publication: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methyloccocales".
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00043 (N = 1).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 30; ATCC: 25; NCIMB: 23; JCM: 21; VKM: 19; KCTC: 8; LMG: 8; NBRC: 6; MCC: 3; UQM: 3.
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🧍 A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the order Methylococcales was conducted by Orata et al. (2018).
Publication:
Orata FD, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sauvageau D, Stein LY. Phylogenomic Analysis of the Gammaproteobacterial Methanotrophs (Order Methylococcales) Calls for the Reclassification of Members at the Genus and Species Levels. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:3162.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 6
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Crenotrichaceae Hansgirg 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) validly published under the ICNP correct name Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 validly published under the ICNP correct name [Methylococcales, not assigned to family] artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis "Methylomonadaceae" Leadbetter 1974 not validly published synonym Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Methylothermaceae" Hirayama et al. 2014 not validly published synonym
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Parent taxon: Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005
Assigned by: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.
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Record number: 5073
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