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Monotypic taxon:
Family
Methanosaetaceae
Boone
et al.
2002 nom. illeg.
(prokaryote)
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Entity:
Methanosarcinales (Order)
..Argarchaeum (Candidatus)
..Ethaniperedens (Candidatus)
..Methanocomedentaceae (Candidate family)
..Methanogastraceae (Candidate family)
..Methanoperedentaceae (Candidate family)
..Methanosarcinaceae (Family)
..Methanotrichaceae (Family)
..Methermicoccaceae (Family)
..[Methanosaetaceae] (Family)
....[Methanosaeta] (Genus)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
D.R. Boone
et al.
, 2002, nom. illeg.
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Boone, D.R., Whitman, W.B. & Koga, Y. 2001.
In
D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), Vol. 1: The
Archaea
and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic
Bacteria
.
In
G.M. Garrity (ed.),
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, New York.
: 289.
Validating publication
:
[Anonymous] 2002.
Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.
52
(3)
: tbl. (p. 686: "fam. nov.", "Boone
et al.
").
Attributes
Type genus: illegitimate (nom.[: typ.] illeg.) [IC[B]N, 2025: Art. 18.3 (family)]
Ref:
J.P. Euzéby, present.
List of Bacterial names with Standing in Nomenclature
: [20 Oct 2014].
Types
Type
:
Methanosaeta
(Genus)
Patel and Sprott 1990 nom. illeg.
Ref:
[Anonymous], 2002
: tbl. (p. 686).
[
new
]
Variants
Not validly published name
:
Methanosaetaceae
(Family)
Boone
et al.
2001 nom. inval.
Ref:
[Anonymous], 2002
: tbl. (p. 686).
[
new
]
Synonyms
Accepted name (subjective)
:
Methanotrichaceae
(Family)
Akinyemi
et al.
2021
Ref:
LPSN, 2020-present
: [20 Nov 2025] ("heterotypic").
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