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              <authors>
                <person-name>
                  <surname>List Editor</surname>
                  <given-names />
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              <article-title>Validation List no. 6. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
              <year>1981</year>
              <volume>31</volume>
              <issue>2</issue>
              <fpage>215</fpage>
              <lpage>218</lpage>
              <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
              <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
              <issn>0020-7713</issn>
              <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/00207713-31-2-215</pub-id>
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          <reference id="rid.9995">
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                <person-name>
                  <surname>Wright</surname>
                  <given-names>A-D.G.</given-names>
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