Notes:

• 1) 'Nom. approb.' (= nomen approbatum, = approved name) refers to a name which is included in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names.
• 2) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.
• 3) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.

Comments and References:

List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 36 (2022), PubMed: abstract Oren, A., and Garrity, G. "Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 36." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2022) 72(7):005413.

Alessa O et al. (2021), doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.740610, PubMed: abstract Alessa, O., Ogura, Y., Fujitani, Y., Takami, H., Hayashi, T., Sahin, N., and Tani, A. "Comprehensive comparative genomics and phenotyping of Methylobacterium species." Front. Microbiol. (2021) 12:740610.

Methylobacterium (LPSN link)

Bousfield IJ & Green PN (1985) Bousfield, I.J., and Green, P.N. "Reclassification of bacteria of the genus Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984 in the genus Methylobacterium (Patt, Cole, and Hanson) emend. Green and Bousfield 1983." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1985) 35:209. [No PubMed record available.]

Green PN & Ardley JK (2018) Green, P.N., and Ardley, J.K. "Review of the genus Methylobacterium and closely related organisms: a proposal that some Methylobacterium species be reclassified into a new genus, Methylorubrum gen. nov." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68:2727-2748.

Green PN & Bousfield IJ (1983) Green, P.N., and Bousfield, I.J. "Emendation of Methylobacterium Patt, Cole, and Hanson 1976; Methylobacterium rhodinum (Heumann 1962) comb. nov. corrig.; Methylobacterium radiotolerans (Ito and Iizuka 1971) comb. nov., corrig.; and Methylobacterium mesophilicum (Austin and Goodfellow 1979) comb. nov." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1983) 33:875-877. [No PubMed record available.]

Patt TE et al. (1976) Patt, T.E., Cole, G.C., and Hanson, R.S. "Methylobacterium, a new genus of facultatively methylotrophic bacteria." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1976) 26:226-229. [No PubMed record available.]

Skerman VBD et al. (1980) Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. (editors). "Approved lists of bacterial names." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30:225-420. [No PubMed record available.]

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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.