Name: Methanofollaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.fol.la.ce’ae. N.L. masc. n. Methanofollis, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanofollaceae, Methanofollis family of the genus Methanofollis

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanoculleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methanoplanaceae Wildgruber et al. 1984	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999 to this family. 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 genus of this family has been placed in the family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Zellner G, Boone DR, Keswani J, Whitman WB, Woese CR, Hagelstein A, Tindall BJ, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Methanogenium tationis and Methanogenium liminatans as Methanofollis tationis gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methanofollis liminatans comb. nov. and description of a new strain of Methanofollis liminatans. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:247-255.
  • ❗ Methanofollaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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