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Bacteriological Code, 1990 Revision

Editors: SP Lapage, PHA Sneath, EF Lessel, VBD Skerman, HPR Seeliger, and WA Clark.

Washington (DC): ASM Press; 1992.

ISBN-10: 1-55581-039-X

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This volume contains the edition of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria approved by the Plenary Session of the Fifteenth International Congress of Microbiology, Osaka, 1990, together with lists of conserved and rejected bacterial names and of Opinions issued by the Judicial Commission. The_Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology_ (ICSB) and the Statutes of the Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), formerly the Bacteriology Section of the International Association of Microbiological Societies (IAMS), are also included. Some minor editorial changes have been required where the 1975 edition referred to actions in the future.

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• Foreword to the First Edition

• Supplement to the Foreword of the First Edition
  P. H. A. Sneath.

• Preface to the First Edition

• Preface to the 1975 Edition

• Preface to the Present Edition
  P. H. A. Sneath.

• Memorial to Professor R. E. Buchanan
  S.T. Cowan.

  • Robert E. Buchanan, 1883–1973
  • References

• Chapter 1. General Considerations

  • General Consideration 1
  • General Consideration 2
  • General Consideration 3
  • General Consideration 4
  • General Consideration 5
  • General Consideration 6
  • General Consideration 7

• Chapter 2. Principles

  • Principle 1
  • Principle 2
  • Principle 3
  • Principle 4
  • Principle 5
  • Principle 6
  • Principle 7
  • Principle 8
  • Principle 9

• Chapter 3. Rules of Nomenclature with Recommendations

  • Section 1. General
  • Section 2. Ranks of Taxa
  • Section 3. Naming of Taxa
  • Section 4. Nomenclatural Types and Their Designation
  • Section 5. Priority and Publication of Names
  • Section 6. Citation of Authors and Names
  • Section 7. Changes in Names of Taxa as a Result of Transference, Union, or Change in Rank
  • Section 8. Illegitimate Names and Epithets: Replacement, Rejection, and Conservation of Names and Epithets
  • Section 9. Orthography

• Chapter 4. Advisory Notes

  • A. Suggestions for Authors and Publishers
  • B. Quotations of Authors and Names
  • C. Maintenance of Type Strains

• Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology

  • Introduction
  • Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology of the International Union of Microbiological Societies

• Statutes of the Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies

  • Constitution

• Appendices

  • Appendix 1. Codes of Nomenclature
  • Appendix 2. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names
  • Appendix 3. Published Sources for Names of Bacterial, Algal, Protozoal, Fungal, and Viral Taxa
  • Appendix 4. Conserved and Rejected Names of Bacterial Taxa
  • Appendix 5. Opinions Relating to the Nomenclature of Bacteria
  • Appendix 6. Published Sources for Recommended Minimal Descriptions
  • Appendix 7. Publication of a New Name
  • Appendix 8. Preparation of a Request for an Opinion
  • Appendix 9. Orthography
  • Appendix 10. Infrasubspecific Subdivisions

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Editor for the 1992 edition, PHA Sneath

Approved by the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology, the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology, the International Union of Microbiological Societies, and the Plenary Session of the International Congress of Bacteriology and Mycology, Osaka, Japan, September 1990

Copyright © 1992, International Union of Microbiological Societies.

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