716 International Code of Nontenclature 



Recommendations 271, 27m, 27n, 27o. Orthography and Gender of Names 



RECOMMENDATION 27 I. Words transliterated and Latinized from languages 

 that do not use the Latin alphabet are to be regarded as orthographic vari- 

 ants if they differ only in the transliteration. Such orthographic variants used 

 as names of taxa based upon different types are to be regarded as homo- 

 nyms. 



RECOMMENDATION 27m. Names of taxa and specific epithets difFering only 

 in the presence or suppression of diacritical marks, transliteration of the 

 German umlaut or the use of special letters are to be regarded as ortho- 

 graphic variants; when based upon different types, they should be treated 

 as homonyms. Words not formed in conformity with Rule 27 Note 9 may be 

 corrected. 



ANNOTATIONS 



Recommendation 271. Several different systems of transliterating 

 Slavic words have been used by German, French, English and other 

 authors. Different transliterations into the Roman alphabet have 

 given Metschnikoff, Metchnikov, Metschnikow, all from a Russian 

 proper name. Specific epithets derived from these varied spellings 

 are to be regarded as orthographic variants if the differences are in 

 transliteration only. 



The accepted specific epithet lysodeikticiis would be more cor- 

 rectly Latinized from the Greek as lysodicticus. The two transliterations 

 would be regarded as orthographic variants of the same word. 



RECOMMENDATION 27n. A name or an epithet derived from a non-Latin 

 or a non-Greek word which does not have an ending conforming to one of 

 the Latin declensions and which has not been latinized by the addition of a 

 Latin ending shall be regarded as a non-declinable Latin noun. Two or more 

 names or specific epithets derived from the same word, one with a Latin 

 ending, the other not, are orthographic variants, and when the names of taxa 

 are based on different types they should be treated as homonyms. 



RECOMMENDATION 27o. Authors of new names of taxa or of specific or 

 subspecific epithets derived from the Greek are urged to transliterate words 

 or stems into Latin form by adherence to the recommendations of Appendix 

 A. 



ANNOTATIONS 



Recommendation 27n. Most of the very numerous serotypes of species 

 of the genus Salmonella have been named by using the unaltered 

 name of the place of origin (town, city, district) as an epithet with 

 the name of the genus. In some cases the resultant binomial is used 

 as the name of the species. The specific epithet in Salmonella lojidon is 

 to be regarded as a nondeclinable modern Latin word. There is good 

 Latin precedent for acceptance of such words. One finds many such 

 words taken over, for example, from the Hebrew in the Biblia Latina 

 Vnlgata. 



