Naming the genus Marivivens and its species: etymological considerations

Aharon Oren; Marko Kostovski; Bernhard Schink; Stefano Ventura

doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006770

Naming the genus Marivivens and its species: etymological considerations

Aharon Oren^*
, Marko Kostovski
, Bernhard Schink
, Stefano Ventura

^*Corresponding author for this work

Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

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Abstract

The name Marivivens marinum, published as sp. nov. by Kang et al. (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025;75: 006735) contravenes Rule 12 c(1) of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). Albeit the authors of the genus name Marivivens Park et al. 2016 did not specify the gender of the name, the epithet donghaensis of the type species was given the masculine gender, and so was the epithet of Marivivens geojensis (Lee et al. 2019) Qu et al. 2022. Therefore, we here correct the name Marivivens marinum to Marivivens marinus corrig. We also give examples of the correct use of present participles as genus names, based on the rules of the ICNP and on past usage in the nomenclature of prokaryotes.

Original language	English
Article number	006770
Journal	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume	75
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006770
State	Published - 1 Apr 2025

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Marivivens
adjectives
gender
nomenclature
participles

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