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.
Bartonella taylorii — Enterobacter taylorae — Lyngbya taylorii — Methanolobus taylorii — Phormidium taylorii — "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylori" — "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylorii" corrig. — "Candidatus Wolbachia taylori" — "Candidatus Wolbachia taylorii" corrig.
"Dolichospermum thompsonii" — "Candidatus Kryptonium thompsoni" — "Candidatus Kryptonium thompsonii" corrig.
"Candidatus Actinobaculum timonae" — "Candidatus Chryseobacterium timonae" — Massilia timonae — Selenomonas timonae
Halobacillus trueperi — Halorubrum trueperi — Natranaerobius trueperi — Rhodospira trueperi — Sphingomonas trueperi — Thiobaca trueperi
Bacillus vulcani — Dictyobacter vulcani — Geobacillus vulcani — Methanococcoides vulcani — Methanolobus vulcani
"Arthrobacter wenxiniae" — Mesorhizobium wenxiniae — Paenibacillus wenxiniae — Rhizobium wenxiniae — Sphingobacterium wenxiniae — Sphingobium wenxiniae
Eperythrozoon wenyoni — Eperythrozoon wenyonii corrig. — "Haemobartonella wenyonii" — Mycoplasma wenyonii — "Candidatus Mycoplasma wenyonii"
Algoriphagus winogradskyi — "Candidatus Elarobacter winogradskyi" — Nitrobacter winogradskyi — "Spirillum winogradskii" — Spirillum winogradskyi — Thiorhodovibrio winogradskyi — Thiospira winogradskyi — "Thiospirillum winogradskii" — "Thiothrix winogradskyi"
Conexibacter woesei — Idiomarina woesei — Methanobrevibacter woesei — Pseudidiomarina woesei — Pyrococcus woesei
Methanobacterium wolfei — Methanothermobacter wolfei corrig. — Methanothermobacter wolfeii — Syntrophomonas wolfei