Name DOI
10.1601/nm.265
Name
 Patel and Sprott 1990
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Patel and Sprott 1990
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 (Patel 1985) Patel and Sprott 1990
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990
Nomenclatural History
The genus Methanosaeta was originally proposed and validly published by Patel and Sprott 1990. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes established this name as a later heterotypic synonym of Huser et al. 1983 in 2014.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990.. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.265.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on October 10, 2014.

References

  1. Patel GB, Sprott GD. Methanosaeta concilii gen. nov., sp. nov. ("Methanothrix concilii") and Methanosaeta thermoacetophila nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:79-82. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-1-79.
  2. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. The genus name Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983 and the species combination Methanothrix soehngenii Huser et al. 1983 do not contravene Rule 31a and are not to be considered as rejected names, the genus name Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990 refers to the same taxon as Methanothrix soehngenii Huser et al. 1983 and the species combination Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata et al. 1992 is rejected: Supplementary information to Opinion 75. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3597-3598. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.069252-0 [PubMed].