Oren Aharon, Parte Aidan, Garrity George M
The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
LPSN, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2016 Oct;66(10):4296-4298. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001319. Epub 2016 Jul 21.
The new version of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes as approved in Istanbul in 2008 has the clear advantage of establishing a uniform way to name classes of prokaryotes, similar to the way other higher taxa are named. However, retroactive implementation of the modified Rule is problematic as it destabilizes the nomenclature and requires the replacement of a large number of names of classes that have been validly published, which would be in violation of Principle 1 of the Code. Therefore, we call upon the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes and its Judicial Commission to reconsider the retroactivity of Rule 8.
2008年在伊斯坦布尔批准的《国际原核生物命名法》新版本规则8具有明显优势，即建立了一种统一的方式来命名原核生物的类别，类似于其他高级分类单元的命名方式。然而，修改后规则的追溯实施存在问题，因为它会破坏命名法的稳定性，并且需要替换大量已有效发表的类别名称，这将违反该法规的原则1。因此，我们呼吁原核生物系统分类国际委员会及其司法委员会重新考虑规则8的追溯性。
