Foreword to the First Edition

The First International Microbiological Congress (Paris, 1930)

The Second International Congress for Microbiology (London, 1936)

The Third International Microbiological Congress (New York, 1939)

The Fourth International Microbiological Congress (Copenhagen, 1947)

The Fifth International Microbiological Congress (Rio de Janeiro, 1950)

The Sixth International Microbiological Congress (Rome, 1953)

Supplement to the Foreword of the First Edition
P. H. A. Sneath.

The Seventh International Congress for Microbiology (Stockholm,1958)

The Eighth International Microbiological Congress (Montreal, 1962)

The Ninth International Congress for Microbiology (Moscow, 1966)

The Tenth International Congress for Microbiology (Mexico City, 1970)

First International Congress of Bacteriology (Jerusalem, 1973)

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the 1975 Edition

Preface to the Present Edition
P. H. A. Sneath.

The Twelfth International Congress for Microbiology (Munich, 1978)

Thirteenth International Congress of Microbiology (Boston, Massachusetts, 1982)

Fourteenth International Congress of Microbiology (Manchester, 1986)

Fifteenth International Congress of Microbiology (Osaka, 1990)

Memorial to Professor R. E. Buchanan
S.T. Cowan.

Robert E. Buchanan, 18831973

References

1. General Considerations

General Consideration 1

General Consideration 2

General Consideration 3

General Consideration 4

General Consideration 5

General Consideration 6

General Consideration 7

2. Principles

Principle 1

Principle 2

Principle 3

Principle 4

Principle 5

Principle 6

Principle 7

Principle 8

Principle 9

3. Rules of Nomenclature with Recommendations

Section 1. General

Section 2. Ranks of Taxa

Section 3. Naming of Taxa

Section 4. Nomenclatural Types and Their Designation

Section 5. Priority and Publication of Names

Section 6. Citation of Authors and Names

Section 7. Changes in Names of Taxa as a Result of Transference, Union, or Change in Rank

Section 8. Illegitimate Names and Epithets: Replacement, Rejection, and Conservation of Names and Epithets

Section 9. Orthography

4. Advisory Notes

A. Suggestions for Authors and Publishers

B. Quotations of Authors and Names

C. Maintenance of Type Strains

Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology

Introduction

Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology of the International Union of Microbiological Societies

Statutes of the Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies

Constitution

Appendix 1. Codes of Nomenclature

Bacteria

Plants, including algae and fungi

Animals, including protozoa

Viruses

General

Appendix 2. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names

Appendix 3. Published Sources for Names of Bacterial, Algal, Protozoal, Fungal, and Viral Taxa

Bacteria

Algae

Protozoa

Fungi

Viruses

Appendix 4. Conserved and Rejected Names of Bacterial Taxa

(Nomina taxorum conservanda et rejicienda)

Appendix 5. Opinions Relating to the Nomenclature of Bacteria

List of Opinions

Appendix 6. Published Sources for Recommended Minimal Descriptions

Appendix 7. Publication of a New Name

Appendix 8. Preparation of a Request for an Opinion

Appendix 9. Orthography

A. Names and Epithets Formed from Personal Names

B. Orthographic Variants

Appendix 10. Infrasubspecific Subdivisions

A. Definitions

B. Infrasubspecific Terms

C. Nomenclature of Infrasubspecific Taxa

D. Nomenclature of Strains