The status of the Notes in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes: proposal to emend General Consideration 6 Oren, Aharon and Garrity, George M.,, 66, 3305-3306 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001192, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes contains 48 Notes to the General Considerations, the Principles, the Rules and the Recommendations. However, the formal status of these Notes is not defined in the Code. Therefore, we here propose an emendation of General Consideration 6 stating that the Notes are intended to clarify the preceding text and are an integral part of that text., language=, type=