Table of Contents 



Foreword v 



Preface ........... xvii 



Chapter 1. General Considerations ^3 



1. Scope of Bacteriological Code of Nomenclature. 3 



2. Principles, Rules, and Recommendations. Definitions. 5 



3. Provisions for establishment of an International Committee on 

 Bacteriological Nomenclature and of its Judicial Commission. 6 



Chapter 2. Principles 9 



1. Essential points in nomenclature. 9 



2. Significance of estai:)lished custom in bacteriological nomenclature. 9 



3. Interdependence in bacteriological, botanical, and zoological 

 nomenclature. 9 



4. Names of all taxa to be Latin or Latinized. 11 



5. Nomenclature deals ^vith categories of taxa, terms designating 

 names of taxa, and with the individual names of taxa. 12 

 Note 1. Definition and use of 'taxon' (plural "taxa") . 



2. Definition of "name," of "legitimate" and "illegitimate" 

 as applied to names and epithets, of "correct name," of 

 "effectively published" and of "validly published." 



6. Scope of Bacteriological Code. 13 



7. Terms denoting rank of taxa: names of categories. 13 



8. Primary purpose of naming taxa. 15 



9. Principle of priority in determining correct names. 15 



10. Principle of stability in nomenclature. 16 



11. Significance of nomenclatural types. 17 

 Note. Definition of "nomenclatural type." 



12. Principle of valid publication of names of taxa. 18 



Chapter 3. Rules and Recommendations 21 



Section 1. Names to be applied to taxa of difFerent ranks. 21 



1. Names of suprageneric taxa, of classic origin or Latinized. 21 



2. Names of taxa above the rank of family, how formed. 21 

 Rec. Preferably based on type genus of a contained family. 21 



3. Names of taxa between suborder and genus. 22 



4. Suffixes used to designate suprageneric taxa. 24 



5. Names of genera and subgenera, how formed. 26 

 Rec. Suggestions to authors of new generic names. 30 



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