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Meng-Syun Li1, Ying-Chen Wu1,2, Chien-Hsun Huang3
1Graduate Institute of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
Abstract:
We identified a case of illegitimacy according to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes in a recent article that revisited the taxonomic boundaries of the species within the Streptococcus mitis-oralis complex. A new subspecies name S. mitis subsp. carlssonii Kilian et al. 2025 was mistakenly proposed for S. mitis cluster II without considering that its circumscription also contains the nomenclatural types of two validly published names, Streptococcus hohhotensis Li et al. 2024 and Streptococcus humanilactis Guo et al. 2024. To rectify this, we proposed a replacement name as S. mitis subsp. hohhotensis (Li et al. 2024) comb. nov. by adopting the earliest legitimate epithet for this particular circumscription.
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