Abstract
Together with 31 other incorrectly formed (i.e. as nominative nouns in apposition) specific epithets, the epithet of Streptomyces scabies was corrected to Streptomyces scabiei in Taxonomic Notes published in 1997 and 1998. A subsequent Request for an Opinion, published in 2001, to reinstate the incorrect epithets for ten of these species was denied by the Judicial Commission in 2002. In 2007, a further Request for an Opinion was submitted to the Judicial Commission which proposed the conservation of the incorrect epithet of Streptomyces 'scabies' over the corrected one, scabiei. After having stated once that the corrections made to the epithets were performed according to the correct application of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (now 'of Prokaryotes', ICNP), the Judicial Commission would lose authority and credibility if it were to follow a request to abandon even one of the now correct 32 epithets in favour of its incorrectly formed predecessor. Microbiologists who accept changes in names of genera should also accept the correction of grammatical or orthographical changes in specific epithets.
Highlights
In 1997 and 1998, Truper and de’ Clari published, according to Rule 61 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (Lapage et al, 1992, ICNB), corrections for 32 specific epithets that had been incorrectly formed as nominatives in apposition (Truper & de’ Clari, 1997, 1998)
At the IUMS Congress in Sydney in 1999, the Judicial Commission followed a proposal by Euzeby (1998) to modify Rule 61 so that from the year of publication of the minutes of the Sydney meeting, no grammatical or orthographical corrections would be accepted for names that have appeared in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, in the Validation Lists or in the Notification Lists
Kilian (2001) published a Request for an Opinion in which he proposed the conservation of at least ten of the incorrectly formed epithets of the 32 that had appeared in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Skerman et al, 1980), namely Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus rattus, Streptococcus cricetus, Erwinia ananas, Eubacterium tarantellus, Lactobacillus sake, Nitrosococcus oceanus, Pseudomonas betle, Rickettsia canada and Streptomyces rangoon
Summary
In 1997 and 1998, Truper and de’ Clari published, according to Rule 61 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (Lapage et al, 1992, ICNB), corrections for 32 specific epithets that had been incorrectly formed as nominatives in apposition (Truper & de’ Clari, 1997, 1998). He pointed out that changes in genus names (e.g. Pseudomonas to Burkholderia or Neisseria to Branhamella and further to Moraxella) seem to be more accepted by the microbiology community than simple grammatical corrections of incorrectly formed specific epithets.
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