skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: International code of nomenclature of prokaryotes

Journal Article · · International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  3. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ), Braunschweig (Germany)
+ Show Author Affiliations

Here, this volume contains the edition of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes that was presented in draft form and available for comment at the Plenary Session of the Fourteenth International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology (BAM), Montréal, 2014, together with updated lists of conserved and rejected bacterial names and of Opinions issued by the Judicial Commission. As in the past it brings together those changes accepted, published and documented by the ICSP and the Judicial Commission since the last revision was published. Several new appendices have been added to this edition. Appendix 11 addresses the appropriate application of the Candidatus concept, Appendix 12 contains the history of the van Niel Prize, and Appendix 13 contains the summaries of Congresses.

Research Organization:
NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0006191
OSTI ID:
1254416
Journal Information:
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol. 90, Issue 6; ISSN 1466-5026
Publisher:
International Union of Microbiological SocietiesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 380 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (27)

Approved Lists of Bacterial Names journal January 1980
Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; XIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology: Minutes of the meetings, 23, 24 and 27 July 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA journal July 2008
Taxonomic Note: Necessary Correction of Specific Epithets Formed as Substantives (Nouns) “in Apposition” journal July 1997
DNA relatedness among the pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae and description of Pseudomonas tremae sp. nov. and Pseudomonas cannabina sp. nov. (ex Sutic and Dowson 1959) journal April 1999
Validation of the Publication of New Names and New Combinations Previously Effectively Published Outside the IJSB: List No. 51 journal October 1994
Designation of the Neotype Strain for Campylobacter sputorum (Prevot) Veron and Chatelain 1973 journal April 1986
Opinion 38: Conservation of the Generic Name Lactobacillus Beijerinck journal January 1971
Opinion 39: Rejection of the Generic Name Gaffkya Trevisan
  • (for the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology), Editorial Secretary
  • International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, Vol. 21, Issue 1, p. 104-105 https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-21-1-104a
journal January 1971
Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov journal March 2000
The Tannin-Degrading Species Streptococcus gallolyticus and Streptococcus caprinus Are Subjective Synonyms journal July 1997
A new species - Microcyclus flavus journal January 1970
Actinomyces meyeri sp. nov., Specific Epithet rev. journal October 1984
Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. and Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. nov., respectively journal November 2005
Opinion 49: Conservation of the Generic Name Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch emend. van Niel posted_content October 1974
Opinion 48: Rejection of the Name Aerobacter liquefaciens Beijerinck and Conservation of the Name Aeromonas Stanier with Aeromonas hydrophila as the Type Species journal October 1973
Notes on Organisms Serologically Related to S. Enteritidis Gärtner. I.: The Dublin and Tokyo Types of Salmonella journal February 1930
Cutting a Gordian Knot: Emended Classification and Description of the Genus Flavobacterium, Emended Description of the Family Flavobacteriaceae, and Proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (Basonym, Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978) journal January 1996
Peptococcaceae, a New Family To Include the Gram-Positive, Anaerobic Cocci of the Genera Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, and Ruminococcus journal July 1971
Proposal to Divide the Genus Moraxella Lwoff 1939 emend. Henriksen and Bovre 1968 into Two Subgenera, Subgenus Moraxella (Lwoff 1939) Bovre 1979 and Subgenus Branhamella (Catlin 1970) Bovre 1979 journal October 1979
An Account of a Glanders-like Disease occurring in Rangoon journal April 1913
Bacterium melaninogenicum--A Misnomer journal June 1947
Status of the Name Proteus morganii and Designation of the Neotype Strain journal January 1971
Opinion 46: Rejection of the Generic Name Aerobacter Beijerinck journal January 1971
Opinion 45: Rejection of the Name Leuconostoc citrovorum (Hammer) Hucker and Pederson journal January 1971
Opinion 60: Rejection of the Name Yersinia pseudotuberculosis subsp. pestis (van Loghem) Bercovier et al. 1981 and Conservation of the Name Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann) van Loghem 1944 for the Plague Bacillus: Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology journal October 1985
Correction of Orthography of Epithets in Pasteurella and Some Problems with Recommendations on Latinization journal October 1992
Opinion No. 3.: The Gender of Generic Names Ending in -Bacter. journal April 1951

Cited By (76)

A proposal for a portal to make earth’s microbial diversity easily accessible and searchable journal March 2017
Streptomyces asenjonii sp. nov., isolated from hyper-arid Atacama Desert soils and emended description of Streptomyces viridosporus Pridham et al. 1958 journal June 2017
Testing culture purity in prokaryotes: criteria and challenges journal February 2018
In defence of taxonomic governance journal February 2019
Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy journal July 2017
1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life journal June 2017
A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life journal August 2018
Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics journal January 2017
TYGS is an automated high-throughput platform for state-of-the-art genome-based taxonomy journal May 2019
Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.6: data updates and feature enhancements journal October 2016
Modest proposals to expand the type material for naming of prokaryotes journal May 2016
Brevibacterium massiliense (Roux and Raoult 2009) is a later heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (Mages, Frodl, Bernard and Funke 2009), using whole-genome sequence analysis as a comparative tool journal November 2016
Phylogenomic analysis of the family Peptostreptococcaceae (Clostridium cluster XI) and proposal for reclassification of Clostridium litorale (Fendrich et al. 1991) and Eubacterium acidaminophilum (Zindel et al. 1989) as Peptoclostridium litorale gen. nov. comb. nov. and Peptoclostridium acidaminophilum comb. nov. journal December 2016
Enterobacter aerogenes Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980) and Klebsiella mobilis Bascomb et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) share the same nomenclatural type (ATCC 13048) on the Approved Lists and are homotypic synonyms, with consequences for the name Klebsiella mobilis Bascomb et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) journal February 2017
International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee for the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Minutes of the meeting, Budapest, 25 August 2016 journal July 2017
Phylogenomic analysis of the species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex demonstrates that Mycobacterium africanum, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium caprae, Mycobacterium microti and Mycobacterium pinnipedii are later heterotypic synonyms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis journal January 2018
Using average nucleotide identity to improve taxonomic assignments in prokaryotic genomes at the NCBI journal July 2018
Whole-genome-based revisit of Photorhabdus phylogeny: proposal for the elevation of most Photorhabdus subspecies to the species level and description of one novel species Photorhabdus bodei sp. nov., and one novel subspecies Photorhabdus laumondii subsp. clarkei subsp. nov. journal August 2018
Review of the genus Methylobacterium and closely related organisms: a proposal that some Methylobacterium species be reclassified into a new genus, Methylorubrum gen. nov. journal September 2018
Minimal standards for the description of new genera and species of rhizobia and agrobacteria journal July 2019
A phylogenomic and comparative genomic framework for resolving the polyphyly of the genus Bacillus: Proposal for six new genera of Bacillus species, Peribacillus gen. nov., Cytobacillus gen. nov., Mesobacillus gen. nov., Neobacillus gen. nov., Metabacillus gen. nov. and Alkalihalobacillus gen. nov. journal January 2020
Registration of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa in the IJSEM journal July 2020
Necessity and rationale for the proposed name changes in the classification of Mollicutes species. Reply to: ‘Recommended rejection of the names Malacoplasma gen. nov., Mesomycoplasma gen. nov., Metamycoplasma gen. nov., Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov., Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov., Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., Mycoplasmoides gen. nov., Mycoplasmopsis gen. nov. [Gupta, Sawnani, Adeolu, Alnajar and Oren 2018] and all proposed species comb. nov. placed therein’, by M. Balish et al. (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 2019;69:3650–3653) journal February 2020
Opinions 97, 98 and 99 journal February 2020
Genome-based analyses reveal a synonymy among Halorubrum distributum Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989; Oren and Ventosa 1996, Halorubrum terrestre Ventosa et al. 2004, Halorubrum arcis Xu et al. 2007 and Halorubrum litoreum Cui et al. 2007. Emended description of Halorubrum distributum Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989; Oren and Ventosa 1996
  • Infante-Domínguez, Carmen; de la Haba, Rafael R.; Corral, Paulina
  • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol. 70, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003956
journal March 2020
Genome sequence-based criteria for demarcation and definition of species in the genus Rickettsia journal March 2020
Serratia vespertilionis (García-Fraile et al. 2015) is a later heterotypic synonym of Serratia ficaria (Grimont et al. 1981) journal March 2020
Treponema phagedenis (ex Noguchi 1912) Brumpt 1922 sp. nov., nom. rev., isolated from bovine digital dermatitis journal March 2020
Advantages outweigh concerns about using genome sequence as type material for prokaryotic taxonomy journal August 2019
Comparative Genomics of the Genus Lactobacillus Reveals Robust Phylogroups That Provide the Basis for Reclassification journal June 2018
A New Genomics-Driven Taxonomy of Bacteria and Archaea: Are We There Yet? journal May 2016
An Update on the Novel Genera and Species and Revised Taxonomic Status of Bacterial Organisms Described in 2016 and 2017 journal September 2018
Beware of False “Type Strain” Genome Sequences journal May 2019
Using Core Genome Alignments To Assign Bacterial Species journal December 2018
Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria journal July 2019
Towards long-read metagenomics: complete assembly of three novel genomes from bacteria dependent on a diazotrophic cyanobacterium in a freshwater lake co-culture journal January 2017
Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria journal August 2018
Comparative Genomic and Phylogenomic Analyses Clarify Relationships Within and Between Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis: Proposal for the Recognition of Two Bacillus thuringiensis Genomovars journal August 2019
Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes journal September 2019
Robust Demarcation of the Family Caryophanaceae (Planococcaceae) and Its Different Genera Including Three Novel Genera Based on Phylogenomics and Highly Specific Molecular Signatures journal January 2020
Cyanobacterial PHA Production—Review of Recent Advances and a Summary of Three Years’ Working Experience Running a Pilot Plant journal March 2017
Current Status and Potential Applications of Underexplored Prokaryotes journal October 2019
Challenges with using names to link digital biodiversity information journal May 2016
Revisiting the Evolution and Taxonomy of Clostridia, a Phylogenomic Update journal May 2019
Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM journal July 2012
List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published journal March 2020
A Genome-Based Species Taxonomy of the Lactobacillus Genus Complex journal September 2019
Whole-genome-based revisit of Photorhabdus phylogeny: proposal for the elevation of most Photorhabdus subspecies to the species level and description of one novel species Photorhabdus bodei sp. nov., and one novel subspecies Photorhabdus laumondii subsp. clarkei subsp. nov. text January 2018
Treponema phagedenis (ex Noguchi 1912) Brumpt 1922 sp. nov., nom. rev., isolated from bovine digital dermatitis. text January 2020
All genera of the world: an overview and estimates based on the March 2020 release of the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) journal March 2020
Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species journal December 2017
Nomenclature Abstract for Bacillus pseudomallei Whitmore 1913. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Bacillus whitmori Bergey et al. 1930. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Methanobacillus omelianskii Bryant et al. 1967. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Archaebacteria None 2015. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Eubacteria None 2015. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Eberthella (Buchanan 1918) Bergey et al. 1923. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Bacterium (Eberthella) Buchanan 1918. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Cylindrogloea Perfiliev 1914. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Cylindrogloea bacterifera Perfiliev 1914. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Aerobacter Beijerinck 1900 emend. Hormaeche and Edwards 1958. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Malleomyces Hallier 1870. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Malleomyces equestris Hallier 1870. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Cyanophyceae Sachs 1874. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Schizophycetes Cohn 1875. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Thermobacterium Orla-Jensen 1919. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Pseudomonadoideae None 2015. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Pseudomonadeae None 2015. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Pseudomonadinae None 2015. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Muellerina de Petschenko 1910. dataset January 2019
Nomenclature Abstract for Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. dataset January 2013
Complete Genome Sequence of the Freshwater Bacterium Beggiatoa leptomitoformis Strain D-401 journal April 2018
Both clinical and environmental Caulobacter species are virulent in the Galleria mellonella infection model journal March 2020
A Metagenomic Approach to Cyanobacterial Genomics journal May 2017
Commentary: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria journal February 2019
An online global database of Hemiptera -Phytoplasma-Plant biological interactions journal February 2019

Similar Records

Microbial Taxonomy Run Amok
Journal Article · Tue Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Trends in Microbiology · OSTI ID:1254416
+1 more
Precambrain time units and nomenclature - the geon concept
Journal Article · Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · Geology; (USA) · OSTI ID:1254416
WPC study yields reserves classification, nomenclature
Journal Article · Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 1983 · Oil Gas J.; (United States) · OSTI ID:1254416

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
biological nomenclature
rules
standards
terminology