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103 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)
1954; the International Commission of Phytosociological
Nomenclature operates under the auspices of the IAVS..
International Botanical Congress, [IBC]: now held at six-year intervals,
the Congress is the only body that by the action of a plenary session
can modify the ICBN; this is done on a resolution moved by the
Nomenclature Section of the Congress.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, [ICBN]: first published
in 1906 (as Régles Internationales de la Nomenclature Botanique)
following the International Botanical Congress held in Vienna in
1905, and revised at Nomenclature Section meetings held at all
subsequent International Botanical Congresses; regulates the naming
of all organisms traditionally studied by botanists (i.e. including
cyanobacteria, fungi, slime moulds, certain protists, etc. as well as
seed plants, ferns, and bryophytes); entitled the International Rules
of Botanical Nomenclature until after the Stockholm Congress of
1950.
International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, [ICNB]: the Code
which regulates the nomenclature of archaea and bacteria, produced
under the auspices of what is now the International Committee on
Systematics of Prokaryotes (q.v.), first published in 1966, but being
renamed as the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
(q.v.).
International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and Viruses: (obsol.)
the nomenclature of bacteria and viruses were governed by this
single Code, the last edition of which was published in 1958; see
International Code of Nomenclature for Bacteria, and the
International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature.
International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, [ICNCP]:
first published in 1953, the Code regulating the nomenclature of
cultivated plants, prepared by the International Commission for the
Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants.
International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, [ICNP]: the Code
which will regulate the nomenclature of archaea and bacteria;
formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (q.v.),
and the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and Viruses