Name: Methanosphaerulaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.sphae.ru.la.ce’ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Methanosphaerula, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methanosphaerulaceae, Methanosphaerula family of the genus Methanosphaerula

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

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: Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanosphaerulaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009 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 Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012. Publication: Sakai S, Ehara M, Tseng IC, Yamaguchi T, Brauer SL, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Zinder SH, Imachi H. Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1389-1395.
  • ❗ Methanosphaerulaceae 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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