Name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus oleusabulum" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: L. neut. n. oleum, oil; L. neut. n. sabulum, sand; oleusabulum, representing the oil sands environment

Gender: masculine

Nomenclatural type: V3

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Effective 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: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus oleisabuli" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicus oleisabuli" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP

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: 1712