Name: Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.tha.no.ther.mo.coc.cus. 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); Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. n. coccus, coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Methanothermococcus, a coccus producing methane at thermophilic growth temperatures

Gender: masculine (stem: Methanothermococc-)

Type species: Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus (Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Whitman WB. Genus II. Methanothermococcus gen. 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. 241-242.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Parent taxon: Methanococcaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981

Assigned by: Whitman WB. Genus II. Methanothermococcus gen. nov. 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. 241-242.

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