Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Oren, Aharon and da Costa, Milton S. and Garrity, George M. and Rainey, Fred A. and Rosselló-Móra, Ramon and Schink, Bernhard and Sutcliffe, Iain and Trujillo, Martha E. and Whitman, William B.,, 65, 4284-4287 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000664, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes covers the nomenclature of prokaryotes up to the rank of class. We propose here modifying the Code to include the rank of phylum so that names of phyla that fulfil the rules of the Code will obtain standing in the nomenclature., language=, type=