Taxon names are frequently derived from personal names to honour persons, particularly persons associated with microbiology. Epithets of species or subspecies can be formed from latinized personal names in the adjective form or in the genitive noun form [Rule 63]. The latter allows for distinguishing between female and male persons to be honoured. A part of the species names found in LPSN and unambiguously derived in the genitive noun form of a personal name (or, rarely, derived in the same way from the name of another kind of entity) are listed below, arranged by the name of the person to which they are referring. See also the LPSN introductory page on forming names.
In the case of a ☞ new combination these epithets must not be adapted to the gender of the genus name.
"Candidatus Cuticobacterium kirbyi" — "Candidatus Cuticulibacterium kirbyi" corrig. — "Candidatus Desulfovibrio kirbyi" — "Candidatus Nucleicoccus kirbyi" corrig. — "Candidatus Nucleococcus kirbyi"
"Candidatus Burkholderia kirkii" — "Candidatus Paraburkholderia kirkii" — Pseudomonas kirkiae — Stutzerimonas kirkiae
Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii — Gordonia kroppenstedtii — Jongsikchunia kroppenstedtii — Nocardia kroppenstedtii — Promicromonospora kroppenstedtii — Rhodococcus kroppenstedtii
Halanaerobium kushneri corrig. — Haloanaerobium kushneri — Salinibacillus kushneri — Salinivibrio kushneri
Desulfofundulus kuznetsovii — Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii — Giesbergeria kuznetsovii — Magnetospirillum kuznetsovii — "Candidatus Oscillochloris kuznetsovii"
Alkalihalobacillus macyae — "Anaerobacillus macyae" — Bacillus macyae — "Pseudalkalibacillus macyae"
"Actinobacterium meyerii" — Actinomadura meyerae corrig. — Actinomadura meyerii — Actinomyces meyeri — Leptospira meyeri — Lysinibacillus meyeri — Metasolibacillus meyeri — Schaalia meyeri — "Stappia meyerae"
"Caldicellulosiruptor morganii" — "Candidatus Manganitrophus morganii" — Morganella morganii — Proteus morganii
Aquimarina muelleri — Enterobacter muelleri — "Candidatus Evansia muelleri" — "Candidatus Johnevansia muelleri" corrig. — "Candidatus Karelsulcia muelleri" corrig. — Schizothrix muelleri — Simonsiella muelleri — "Candidatus Sulcia muelleri" — Symplocastrum muelleri