- Volume 36, Issue 2, 1986

Seven requests for opinions were published in 1983 and 1984. Five of these, requesting replacement of the type strain of Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinum, requesting rejection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis subsp. pestis and conservation of Yersinia pestis, requesting a change in the type of Pasteuria ramosa, and requesting conservation of the genera Methanococcus and Methanosarcina with new type species, have been awarded. Two others, one requesting a change in the type strain of Listeria monocytogenes and the other requesting conservation of the genus Micropolyspora over Faenia, have been denied.