Proposal for emendation of Appendix B of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and Viruses

A proposal is made to amend Appendix B “Alternative Spelling of Names and Epithets in Bacteriology: Orthographic Variants.” The amendment is designed to make legitimate the corrected names of suprageneric taxa that were originally published with vernacular suffixes, with suffixes appropriate to a taxon of another rank or with suffixes as prescribed by the Zoological Code of Nomenclature. The corrected names are to be ascribed to the original author without prejudice.