Open AccessFormation of compound generic names based on personal names: a proposal for emendation of Appendix 9 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
Author(s) -
Aharon Oren,
Maria Chuvochina,
Stefano Ventura
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1466-5034
pISSN - 1466-5026
DOI - 10.1099/ijsem.0.003192
Subject(s) - nomenclature , orthography , epithet , honour , chemical nomenclature , code (set theory) , linguistics , biology , computer science , history , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , philosophy , reading (process) , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , archaeology , set (abstract data type)
Appendix 9, the orthography appendix of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, provides guidelines for the correct formation of generic names and specific epithets to honour famous microbiologists and other persons connected with natural science. However, no guidelines are given for the correct formation of compound generic names in which the first word element is derived from a personal name. Currently there are 16 such names validly published under the Rules of the Code, but the ways they were formed are inconsistent. We therefore propose an emendation of Appendix 9 to provide uniform guidelines for the formation of such names in the future.