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Appendix C. Opinions 14, 15. 



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OPINION 15 



Conservation of the Family Name Enterobacteriaceae, 

 of the Name of the Type Genus, and Designation of the Type Species 



The Editorial Board of the Judicial Commission published a state- 

 ment relative to a proposal that the family name Enterobacteriaceae 

 Rahn 1937 be conserved, that the type genus be designated, that the 

 name of the type genus be conserved, and that the type species be 

 designated. The Commissioners were requested to \ote by ballot on 

 the several proposals. 



The result of the vote authorizes the Editorial Board acting for 

 the Judicial Commission to publish the following Opinion. Ihis 

 Opinion is final unless revoked or modified by action of the Inter- 

 national Coinmittee on Bacteriological Nomenclature. 



Opinion 15. 



1. The family name Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (p. 280) is placed in the 

 list of conserved family names (nomina conservanda familiorum). 



2. The genus Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (p. 941) is designated 

 as the type genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae Castellani and Chalmers 

 1919. 



3. The generic name Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (p. 941) is 

 placed in the list of conserved generic names (nomina conservanda 

 generum). 



4. The type species of the genus Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 

 (p. 941) is Escherichia coli (Migula) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (p. 941), 

 (basonym Bacillus coli Migula 1895 (p. 27); hyponym Bacterium coli com- 

 mune Escherich 1885 (p. 518)). 



REFERENCES 



Editorial Board. Proposal to conserve the family name Enterobacteriaceae 

 and to designate the tvpe genus. Internatl. Bull. Bact. Nomen. and Taxon. 



7 (4): 165.' 1957. 



