Moraxella. The standing in nomenclature of various proposed names

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A reexamination of the early literature on the genus Moraxella was made in order to clarify obscure points of nomenclature and to check the correctness of the names now in common use. It is proposed that the generic name Diplobacillus MacNab 1904 should be considered as a later homonym of Diplobacillus Weichselbaum 1887. If this proposal is accepted, Moraxella Lwoff 1939 is the correct generic name, and the correct names of the species are the following: 1. Moraxella duplex (Lehmann et Neumann 1899); 2. Moraxella liquefaciens (MacNab 1904) Murray 1948; 3. Moraxella nonliquefaciens (Scarlett 1916) Murray et Truant 1954; 4. Moraxella bovis (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948; 5. Moraxella saccharolytica Flamm 1956. Opinions of the Judicial Commission are requested on these questions: I. Should a generic name proposed in a combined description of a genus and a species in a monotypic genus be regarded as validly published if the name of the single species described was not validly published? II. Should the generic name Moraxella Lwoff be conserved against Diplo-bacillus MacNab?.

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