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.
Lyngbya kashyapii — Porphyrosiphon kashyapii — Scytonematopsis kashyapii — Spelaeopogon kashyapii corrig.
Kingella kingae — "Moraxella kingae" corrig. — "Moraxella kingii" — Myxococcoides kingii — "Pseudomonas kingii"
"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
Bacillus kochii — Cytobacillus kochii — Flavobacterium kochi — Janthinobacterium kochi — "Neisseria kochii" — Pseudarthrobacter kochi
Blennothrix komarekii — Chamaesiphon komarekii — Persinema komarekii — Sodalinema komarekii — Thalassoporum komarekii corrig.
Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii — Gordonia kroppenstedtii — Jongsikchunia kroppenstedtii — Nocardia kroppenstedtii — Promicromonospora kroppenstedtii — Rhodococcoides kroppenstedtii — Rhodococcus kroppenstedtii — Streptomyces kroppenstedtii
Halanaerobium kushneri corrig. — Haloanaerobium kushneri — Salinibacillus kushneri — Salinivibrio kushneri
Desulfofundulus kuznetsovii — Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii — Giesbergeria kuznetsovii — Magnetospirillum kuznetsovii — "Candidatus Oscillochloris kuznetsovii" — Paramagnetospirillum kuznetsovii
Leptolyngbya lagerheimii — Lyngbya lagerheimii — "Lyngbya lagerheimii" — "Spirocoleus lagerheimii" — Spirocoleus lagerheimii
Blennothrix lauterbachii — Hydrocoleum lauterbachii — Microcoleus lauterbachii — Stigonema lauterbachii
Anabaena lemmermannii corrig. — Anagnostidinema lemmermannii — Dolichospermum lemmermannii — Geitlerinema lemmermannii — Jaaginema lemmermannii — Oscillatoria lemmermannii corrig.
Alkalihalobacillus macyae — "Anaerobacillus macyae" — Bacillus macyae — "Pseudalkalibacillus macyae"
Clostridioides mangenotii — Clostridium mangenotii corrig. — "Inflabilis mangenotii" corrig. — Metaclostridioides mangenotii
Borrelia mayonii — Borreliella mayonii — Burkholderia mayonis — Corynebacterium mayonis — Dryocola mayonis
Anabaena mehrae — Oscillatoria mehrae corrig. — Phormidium mehrae corrig. — Rivularia mehrae corrig.
Corynebacterium mendelii — Paenibacillus mendelii — Pedobacter mendelii — "Candidatus Rickettsia mendelii"
"Actinobacterium meyerii" — Actinomadura meyerae corrig. — Actinomadura meyerii — Actinomyces meyeri — Leptospira meyeri — Lysinibacillus meyeri — Metasolibacillus meyeri — Schaalia meyeri — "Stappia meyerae"
Anabaenopsis milleri — Leptospira milleri — Methanobrevibacter millerae — "Methanocatella millerae" — "Streptococcus milleri"
"Bulleidia moorei" — Eosynechococcus moorei — "Faecalibacterium moorei" — Girvanella moorei — Orbus mooreae — Pseudomonas moorei — Solobacterium moorei — Streptomyces mooreae
"Bacillus morganii" corrig. — "Caldicellulosiruptor morganii" — "Candidatus Manganitrophus morganii" — Morganella morganii — Proteus morganii corrig.
Aquimarina muelleri — "Caryophanon muelleri" — "Clostridium muelleri" — Enterobacter muelleri — "Candidatus Evansia muelleri" — "Candidatus Johnevansia muelleri" — "Candidatus Johnevansia muelleri" corrig. — "Candidatus Karelsulcia muelleri" corrig. — Schizothrix muelleri corrig. — Simonsiella muelleri — "Candidatus Sulcia muelleri" — Symplocastrum muelleri
Deinococcus murrayi — Listeria murrayi — Lyngbya murrayi — "Murraya murrayi" — Phormidium murrayi — Wilmottia murrayi
Aphanocapsa naegelii — Aphanothece naegelii — Arthrospira naegelii corrig. — Hypheothrix naegelii — Schizothrix naegelii — Spirulina naegelii — Symplocastrum naegelii
Girvanella nicholsoni — Girvanella nicholsonii corrig. — Mitcheldeania nicholsoni — Mitcheldeania nicholsonii corrig.
"Candidatus Electronema nielsenii" — "Candidatus Manresella nielsenii" — "Candidatus Villigracilis nielsenii"
