Name: Methylosarcina lacus Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la’cus. L. gen. masc. n. lacus, of a lake

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1047; DSM 16693; JCM 13284; LW14

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY007296 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kalyuzhnaya MG, Stolyar SM, Auman AJ, Lara JC, Lidstrom ME, Chistoserdova L. Methylosarcina lacus sp. nov., a methanotroph from Lake Washington, Seattle, USA, and emended description of the genus Methylosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2345-2350.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methylomicrobium lacus (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005) Orata et al. 2019

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methylomicrobium lacus (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005) Orata et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Methylosarcina lacus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Methylosarcina.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Methylosarcina Wise et al. 2001

Assigned by: Kalyuzhnaya MG, Stolyar SM, Auman AJ, Lara JC, Lidstrom ME, Chistoserdova L. Methylosarcina lacus sp. nov., a methanotroph from Lake Washington, Seattle, USA, and emended description of the genus Methylosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2345-2350.

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Record number: 778010