Opinion 58: Confirmation of the Types in the Approved Lists as Nomenclatural Types including Recognition of Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 and Pasteurella multocida (Lehmann and Neumann 1899) Rosenbusch and Merchant 1939 as the Respective Type Species of the Genera Nocardia and Pasteurella and Rejection of the Species Name Pasteurella gallicida (Burrill 1883) Buchanan 1925: Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology
The Judicial Commission has formally and explicitly ruled that the nomenclatural types cited in the Approved Lists are the correct types unless later varied by the Commission under its powers. The type species of Nocardia becomes Nocardia asteroides and the type species of Pasteurella becomes Pasteurella multocida, superseding the types cited in Opinion 13. Pasteurella gallicida is placed on the list of nomen rejicienda.
Judicial Commission1953; Minutes of the Judicial Commisison meetings held at Rome in connection with the VI International Congress for Microbiology. September 1953. Int. Bull. Bacteriol. Nomencl. Taxon3141–154
Judicial Commission1954; Opinion 13. Conservation and rejection of names of genera of bacteria proposed by Trevisan 1842-1890. Int. Bull. Bacteriol. Nomencl. Taxon4151–156
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