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Rule 27. Sect. 7. Orthography and Gender of Names 



Rule 27. Note 4. When typographical or orthographic errors are 

 discovered in a publication of a new name, it is an act of courtesy 

 to call the attention of the author to the error so that he niav himself 

 publish the correction. 



Rule 27. Note 5. The specific epithet in the species name Bacillus 

 kaustophilus Prickett 1928 had classical usage been followed, would 

 have been spelled caiistophilus. The Greek kappa should have been 

 transliterated as a c rather than k. No suggested correction has been 

 proposed in the literature. Rickettsia akari is generally accepted in 

 the literature although the generic name from the same root is spelled 

 Acarus. 



Streptococcus eiysipelatos and S. erysipelatis are orthographic 

 variants; they are different transliterations of the same Greek geni- 

 tive. Latinization as 5. erysipelatis is preferable. 



The genitive noun pasteurii and the adjective pasteurianus. 

 though derived from the same patronymic Pasteur, are neither ortho- 

 graphic variants nor homonyms. 



Some Latin words were spelled alternatively with an initial vowel 

 or with an h preceding the vowel. This in some cases was due to two 

 different transliterations of Greek words with an initial spiritiis asper 

 (transliterated as /?) . Linnaeus used as a specific epithet the Latinized 

 Greek abrotonum rather than the classical transliteration habroto- 

 num; for the species Artemisia abrotonum, the Linnaean spelling 

 should be followed. 



Rule 27. Note 7. The name of Pasteur may be Latinized as Pastor. 

 Both forms have been used in forming names and epithets: Pasteur- 

 ella Trevisan 1885; Clostridium pasteurianum Winogradsky 1895; 

 Urobacillus pasteurii Miguel 1889; Saccharobacillus pastorianus Van- 

 Laer 1892. 



Gaillonclle has been Latinized with resultant Gallionella Ehren- 

 berg 1835. There is also a Gaillonella B017 de St. Vincent 1823. 



Rule 27. Note 8. The only diacritic sign permissible in the spelling 

 of names and epithets in bacteriology is that of the diaeresis (Gr., a 

 division) which may be placed above the second of two consecutive 

 vowels to indicate the two vowels are to be separately pronounced 

 (are in separate syllables) , and not to be regarded as a diphthong. 

 For example, the specific epithet aeruginosa (as in Pseudomonas 

 aerugijiosa) is derived from the stem aer- from aes, aeris z= bronze, 

 copper, in which initial ae- is a diphthong. However, the Greek 

 a\] = ae is not a diphthong. Many names and epithets in bacteriology 

 are derived from the Greek i-^p = aer — air; in such words to indi- 

 cate that the a and e are in two syllables, the sign of the diaeresis may be 

 used, hence Aerobacter aerogenes (Kruse) Beijerinck but Bacillus 

 aeris Chester. 



