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Volume 75, Issue 4

Naming the genus and its species: etymological considerations Open Access

Abstract

The name , published as sp. nov. by Kang ( 2025;75 : 006735) contravenes Rule 12 c(1) of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). Albeit the authors of the genus name Park 2016 did not specify the gender of the name, the epithet of the type species was given the masculine gender, and so was the epithet of (Lee 2019) Qu . 2022. Therefore, we here correct the name to corrig. We also give examples of the correct use of present participles as genus names, based on the rules of the ICNP and on past usage in the nomenclature of prokaryotes.

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Keyword(s): adjectives , gender , Marivivens , nomenclature and participles
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • NBFC (Award CN00000033)
    • Principal Award Recipient: StefanoVentura
© 2025 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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