INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · 1997 · 223 citations · 2 references
Life SciencesLinguisticsMicrobiologyMicrobial SystematicsMicrobial TaxonomyMorphologyBacterial ClassificationMicrobial NomenclatureNomenclature RulesTaxonomic ClassificationTaxonomic NomenclatureTaxonomic RevisionAdjectival AgreementBacterial NamingBacterial NomenclatureGrammatical AmbiguityNomenclature Under The International Code Of Nomenclature Of ProkaryotesSpecific EpithetsTaxonomic Revision NomenclatureTaxonomic Synonym Resolution
Forming Latin species names (specific epithets) as “nominative nouns in apposition” (according to Rule 12c of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria) has often been misunderstood or posed problems. Here, this grammatical construction is explained, and 24 cases that did not meet the requirements for this type of construction are corrected to a genitive noun or adjectival form in agreement with Rule 12c.
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