Name: Methanoregula boonei Bräuer et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: boo’ne.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. boonei, of Boone, to honour the pioneering work of David Boone on methanogenic archaea

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 6A8; DSM 21154; JCM 14090

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ282124 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Brauer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Ward RJ, Yavitt JB, Zinder SH. Methanoregula boonei gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidiphilic methanogen isolated from an acidic peat bog. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:45-52.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:701-702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanoregula boonei" Bräuer et al. 2006	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Methanoregula Bräuer et al. 2011. Publication: Brauer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Ward RJ, Yavitt JB, Zinder SH. Methanoregula boonei gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidiphilic methanogen isolated from an acidic peat bog. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:45-52.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Methanoregula Bräuer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Brauer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Ward RJ, Yavitt JB, Zinder SH. Methanoregula boonei gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidiphilic methanogen isolated from an acidic peat bog. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:45-52.

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Record number: 788993