2015•INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGYRequires access

Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Aharon Oren, Milton S. da Costa, George M Garrity, Fred A. Rainey, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Bernhard Schink, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Martha E. Trujillo, William B. Whitman

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The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes covers the nomenclature of prokaryotes up to the rank of class. We propose here modifying the Code to include the rank of phylum so that names of phyla that fulfil the rules of the Code will obtain standing in the nomenclature.

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Key concepts: Phylum, Nomenclature, Biology, Rank (graph theory), International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Code (set theory), Zoology, Taxonomy (biology)