Name: "Candidatus Methanoculleus thermohydrogenitrophicus" corrig. Kougias et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ther.mo.hy.dro.ge.ni.tro’phi.cus. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; N.L. neut. n. hydrogenum, hydrogen; N.L. masc. adj. trophicus, nursing, tending; from Gr. masc. adj. trophikos, nursing; N.L. masc. adj. thermohydrogenitrophicus, feeding on hydrogen at high temperature

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DTU006

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16S rRNA gene: LFRN01000187 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kougias PG, Campanaro S, Treu L, Zhu X, Angelidaki I. A novel archaeal species belonging to Methanoculleus genus identified via de-novo assembly and metagenomic binning process in biogas reactors. Anaerobe 2017; 46:23-32.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanoculleus thermohydrogenotrophicum" Kougias et al. 2017	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990

Assigned by: Kougias PG, Campanaro S, Treu L, Zhu X, Angelidaki I. A novel archaeal species belonging to Methanoculleus genus identified via de-novo assembly and metagenomic binning process in biogas reactors. Anaerobe 2017; 46:23-32.

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Record number: 22034