- Volume 13, Issue 1, 1963

The generic name Colloides is illegitimate because the organisms belong to known taxa within the Enterobacteriaceae. The name Herellea is a nomen dubium and therefore illegitimate, and the name Mima polymorpha var. oxydans is a later synonym. An Opinion of the Judicial Commission is requested on the question of whether the specific epithet lwoffi Audureau 1940 should be conserved against the epithet polymorpha DeBord 1939. If this is decided the tribe Mimeae ceases to exist.

The decisions of the Soviet Committee on Nomenclature report the steps taken to integrate the provisional Soviet classification scheme of the dysentery bacteria with the proposals of the International Subcommittee on the Enterobacteriaceae. The relationships of the species of the genus Shigella in the two schemata are analyzed. A scheme of Shigella classification to be used in the USSR is presented.

The specific epithet typhi is conserved against typhosa in the species name Salmonella typhi (Schroeter) Warren and Scott 1930 with basionym Bacillus typhi Schroeter 1886.

All names of bacterial taxa found in Trécul 1865, Hallier 1866, 1868a, 1886b, 1870, Billroth 1874 and Ogston 1882, 1883 are rejected as not validly published and having no standing in nomenclature of bacteria.

Neotype cultures of Salmonella cholerae-suis, S. typhi - murium, Shigella dysenteriae, Arizona arizonae, Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Proteus vulgaris were approved.

A neotype strain of Streptococcus agalactiae Lehmann and Neumann is designated and deposited in the American Type Culture Collection as ATCC No. 13813 and in the National Collection of Type Cultures as NCTC No. 8181.

The generic name Enterobacter Hormaeche and Edwards is conserved against the generic name Cloaca Castellani and Chalmers.