原核生物的命名受《国际原核生物命名法》(ICNP)规则的规范,并基于Linnaean二项式系统。《守则》的现行规则仅涵盖有教养的少数群体的名称。最近,国际原核生物系统学委员会拒绝了将未培养的大多数细菌和古细菌纳入《守则》规则的提议。Candidatus的临时等级可用于命名未耕种的原核生物,其名称无法根据ICNP的规则有效发布,但是它们的名称现在可以在根据序列数据描述的原核生物命名代码(SeqCode)下进行验证,这是最近建立的,以涵盖未培养的多数的命名法。宏基因组学,单细胞基因组学,和高通量栽培技术导致了大量目前等待命名的新生物。GAN和Protologger等自动化程序可以帮助研究人员命名和描述新发现的原核生物,种植和未种植。然而,拉丁语和希腊语的技能仍然是必不可少的适当的质量控制的名称,必须符合标准的命名法。
The nomenclature of prokaryotes is regulated by the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) and is based on the Linnaean binomial system. The current rules of the Code only cover the nomenclature of the cultivated minority. Proposals to incorporate the uncultivated majority of bacteria and archaea under the rules of the Code were recently rejected by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. The provisional rank of Candidatus can be used to name uncultivated prokaryotes whose names cannot be validly published under the rules of the ICNP, but their names can now be validated under the Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (the SeqCode), which was recently established to cover the nomenclature of the uncultivated majority. Metagenomics, single-cell genomics, and high-throughput cultivation techniques have led to a flood of new organisms currently waiting to be named. Automated programs such as GAN and Protologger can assist researchers in naming and describing newly discovered prokaryotes, cultivated as well as uncultivated. However, Latin and Greek skills remain indispensable for proper quality control of names that must meet the standards set by the codes of nomenclature.