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Name: "Candidatus Methanofastidiosa" Nobuet al. 2016

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.tha.no.fas.tid.i.o’sa.N.L. pref.methano-, pertaining to methane (in compound words);L. fem. adj.fastidiosa, highly critical, referring to the nutritional fastidiousness of the organism, particularly on primary isolation;N.L. fem. n.Methanofastidiosa

Gender: feminine

Type genus:"Candidatus Methanofastidiosum" Nobuet al. 2016

Effective publication: Nobu MK, Narihiro T, Kuroda K, Mei R, Liu WT. Chasing the elusiveEuryarchaeota class WSA2: genomes reveal a uniquely fastidious methyl-reducing methanogen.ISME J 2016;10:2478-2487.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME.Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryoticCandidatus taxa.Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020;70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name:"Candidatus Methanofastidiosia" corrig. Nobuet al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methanofastidiosia" corrig. Nobuet al. 2016	corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class"Candidatus Methanofastidiosia" corrig. Nobuet al. 2016.Publication: Nobu MK, Narihiro T, Kuroda K, Mei R, Liu WT. Chasing the elusiveEuryarchaeota class WSA2: genomes reveal a uniquely fastidious methyl-reducing methanogen.ISME J 2016;10:2478-2487.

Parent taxon:Methanobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2023

Assigned by: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names.Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023;73:6024.

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