The Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes decided that the date of valid publication of the genus name Thermodesulfobacterium and of the species names Thermodesulfobacterium commune and Thermodesulfobacterium thermophilum is 1995. Thermodesulfobacterium mobile Rozanova and Pivovarova 1988 is an illegitimate, later synonym of Thermodesulfobacterium thermophilum.

The Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes decided that strain DSM 6035 is the type strain of Lactobacillus panis with the consequence that the name Lactobacillus panis has been validly published.

The Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes decided that the name Paenibacillus durus has priority over Paenibacillus azotofixans, and that the latter is a later synonym of the former. The type strain is therefore strain ATCC 27763 (=DSM 1735).

The Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes decided that strain NCIMB 13488 may serve as the type strain of Halorubrum trapanicum.