Name: Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.cal.cu.lus. 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. calculus, pebble, gravel; N.L. masc. n. Methanocalculus, methane (-producing) pebble-shaped organism

Gender: masculine (stem: Methanocalcul-)

Type species: Methanocalculus halotolerans Ollivier et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ollivier B, Fardeau ML, Cayol JL, Magot M, Patel BK, Prensier G, Garcia JL. Methanocalculus halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an oil-producing well. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:821-828.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014. Publication: Zhilina TN, Zavarzina DG, Kevbrin VV, Kolganov TV. [Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon from a soda lake, and proposal of the new family Methanocalculaceae]. Mikrobiologiia 2013; 82:681-690.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🖹 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 Lai et al. (2004). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 8; JCM: 1; VKM: 1; ATCC: 1; CCRC: 1; BCRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methanocalculus alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocalculus chunghsingensis Lai et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocalculus halotolerans Ollivier et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocalculus natronophilus Zhilina et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocalculus pumilus Mori et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methanocalculus taiwanensis Lai et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methanocalculaceae Zhilina et al. 2014

Assigned by: Zhilina TN, Zavarzina DG, Kevbrin VV, Kolganov TV. [Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon from a soda lake, and proposal of the new family Methanocalculaceae]. Mikrobiologiia 2013; 82:681-690.

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