heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002.Publication:
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Family II. Methanosaetaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 289-294.
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Methanosaetaceae Boone et al. 2002.Publication:
Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y. Family II. Methanosaetaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 289-294.
🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983.Publication:
Huser BA, Wuhrmann K, Zehnder AJB. Methanothrix soehngenii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new acetotrophic non-hydrogen-oxidizing methane bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 1982; 132:1-9.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Merhanosaeta"; "Methanosaeata"; "Methnnosaeta".
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; JCM: 3; NBRC: 2; VKM: 1; CGMCC: 1; ATCC: 1.
🧍 Illegitimate according to IJSEM 61:2775-2780.Publication:
Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MEST" 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.
🧍 See also the file Some problems with the genera Methanothrix and Methanosaeta.Publication:
Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
🧍 According to the Judicial Commission, the name Methanosaeta is illegitimate and should be rejected as a source of confusion. It should be replaced with the genus name Methanothrix. The replacement name will be nom. nov. (sic) and all species in the genus Methanosaeta should be transferred to the genus Methanothrix. As yet this request is provisional.Publication:
Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4 Total number of child taxa: 6