Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus oleisabuli" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: o.le.i.sa’bu.li. L. neut. n. oleum, oil; L. neut. n. sabulum, sand; N.L. gen. neut. n. oleisabuli, of oil sand

Gender: masculine

Type strain: V3

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Original publication: 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.

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 Methanomethylicus oleusabulum" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Assigned by: 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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Record number: 21987