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          <article-title>Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae.</article-title>
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        <article-title>Validation List no. 14.  Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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