Methylomicrobium japanense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Methylomicrobium japanense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Universal Root Woese et al. 1990 Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021 Pseudomonadota corrig. Garrity et al. 2021 Alphaproteobacteriota (sic) Garrity et al. 2021 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013 Methylococcales Bowman 2005 Methylococcaceae Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993 Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018 Methylomicrobium japanense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Methylomicrobium Bowman et al. 1995 emend. Orata et al. 2018 Methylomicrobium pelagicum (Sieburth et al. 1988) Bowman et al. 1995 Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Methylomicrobium buryatense Kaluzhnaya et al. 2001 Methylomicrobium album (Bowman et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1995 Methylomicrobium agile (Bowman et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1995 Methylomicrobium kenyense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Methylomicrobium lacus (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005) Orata et al. 2019 Methylotuvimicrobium japanense (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008) Orata et al. 2018 Methylomicrobium japanense Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008 Kalyuzhnaya M.G. Khmelenina V. Eshinimaev B. Sorokin D. Fuse H. Lidstrom M. Trotsenko Y. Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium. 2008 58 3 591 596 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijs.0.65317-0 18319461 No information can be found online for strain FERM BP-5633. According to the VKM website, strain VKM B-2462 is no longer available. Kalyuzhnaya M.G. Khmelenina V. Eshinimaev B. Sorokin D. Fuse H. Lidstrom M. Trotsenko Y. Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium. 2008 58 3 591 596 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijs.0.65317-0 18319461 Methylotuvimicrobium japanense (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008) Orata et al. 2018 Kalyuzhnaya M.G. Khmelenina V. Eshinimaev B. Sorokin D. Fuse H. Lidstrom M. Trotsenko Y. Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium. 2008 58 3 591 596 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijs.0.65317-0 18319461 Tindall B.J. The status of names whose nomenclatural types are based on strains deposited solely for patent purposes. 2019 69 8 2616 2620 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijsem.0.003527 31215862 Orata F.D. Meier-Kolthoff J.P. Sauvageau D. Stein L.Y. Phylogenomic Analysis of the Gammaproteobacterial Methanotrophs (Order Methylococcales) Calls for the Reclassification of Members at the Genus and Species Levels. 2018 9 3162 3162 Frontiers in Microbiology Front. Microbio. 1664-302X 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03162 30631317 Tindall 2019 asserts that one of the three nomenclatural type deposits is a patent strain.