Name: Methylococcales Bowman 2005

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Methylococcus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Methylococcales, the Methylococcus order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Methylococcus Foster and Davis 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methyloccocales".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00043 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 26; NCIMB: 23; JCM: 21; ATCC: 20; VKM: 19; LMG: 7; KCTC: 7; NBRC: 6; MCC: 3; NCCB: 2.
  • 🧍 A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the order Methylococcales was conducted by Orata et al. (2018). Publication: Orata FD, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sauvageau D, Stein LY. Phylogenomic Analysis of the Gammaproteobacterial Methanotrophs (Order Methylococcales) Calls for the Reclassification of Members at the Genus and Species Levels. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:3162.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Crenotrichaceae Hansgirg 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Methylococcales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Bowman JP. Order VII. Methylococcales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 248-252.

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