Etymology:
Me.tha.no.cul.le.us. N.L. neut. n.methanum, methane; from French masc. n.méthyle; from Chem. neut. suff.-ane; N.L. pref.methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words); L. masc. n.culleus, a leather bag, a sack for holding liquids; N.L. masc. n.Methanoculleus, methane producing bag
Valid publication:
Maestrojuán GM, Boone DR, Xun L, Mah RA, Zhang L. Transfer of Methanogenium bourgense, Methanogenium marisnigri, Methanogenium olentangyi, and Methanogenium thermophilicum to the genus Methanoculleus gen. nov., emendation of Methanoculleus marisnigri and Methanogenium and description of new strains of Methanoculleus bourgense and Methanoculleus marisnigri. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1990; 40:117-122.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2021.Publication:
Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981.Publication:
Corder RE, Hook LA, Larkin JM, Frea JI. Isolation and characterization of two new methane-producing cocci: Methanogenium olentangyi, sp. nov., and Methanococcus deltae, sp. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 1983; 134:28-32.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981.Publication:
Ollivier BM, Mah RA, Garcia JL, Boone DR. Isolation and characterization of Methanogenium bourgense sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1986; 36:297-301.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hetbanoculleus"; "Hethanoculleus"; "Mehtanoculleus"; "Methanocelleus"; "Methanocullcus"; "Methanoculleua"; "Metharioculleus"; "Metharzoculleus"; "Methunoculleus"; "Metlianoculleus"; "Metlzanoculleus"; "Rethanoculleus".
🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2023.Publication:
Prakash O, Dodsworth JA, Dong X, Ferry JG, L'Haridon S, Imachi H, Kamagata Y, Rhee SK, Sagar I, Shcherbakova V, et al. Proposed minimal standards for description of methanogenic archaea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5500.
💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Asakawa and Nagaoka (2003), Weng et al. (2015). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00879 (N = 3).
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 14; ATCC: 6; JCM: 3; NBRC: 2; CGMCC: 2; BCRC: 2.
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MECU" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13 Total number of child taxa: 17