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The adjectival form of the epithet in Tannerella forsythensis Sakamoto et al. 2002 is to be retained and the name is to be corrected to Tannerella forsythia Sakamoto et al. 2002. Opinion 85

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B. J. Tindall
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ABSTRACT

The Judicial Commission rules that the adjectival form is to be conserved in the specific epithet forsythia in Tannerella forsythia.

At its meetings in July 2005, at the IUMS Congress in San Francisco, the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes ruled that, on the transfer of Bacteroides forsythus Tanner et al. 1986 to the genus Tannerella Sakamoto et al. 2002, the adjectival form of the specific epithet is to be conserved. The Request for an Opinion of Maiden et al. (2003) has provided ample background to explain the basis on which the original name was formed (Tanner et al., 1986). The altered form proposed on transfer to the genus Tannerella Sakamoto et al. 2002 was based on a misunderstanding of the intent of the original authors. The authorship of the species name Tannerella forsythia corrig. is to be attributed to Sakamoto et al. (2002).

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Maiden, M. F. J., Cohee, P. & Tanner, A. C. R. (2003). Proposal to conserve the adjectival form of the specific epithet in the reclassification of Bacteroides forsythus Tanner et al. 1986 to the genus Tannerella Sakamoto et al. 2002 as Tannerella forsythia corrig., gen. nov., comb. nov. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 2111–2112.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

Sakamoto, M., Suzuki, M., Umeda, M., Ishikawa, I. & Benno, Y. (2002). Reclassification of Bacteroides forsythus (Tanner et al. 1986) as Tannerella forsythensis corrig., gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52, 841–849.[Abstract]

Tanner, A. C. R., Listgarten, M. A., Ebersole, J. L. & Strzempko, M. N. (1986). Bacteroides forsythus sp. nov., a slow-growing, fusiform Bacteroides sp. from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Bacteriol 36, 213–221.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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