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      <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.17944" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.23208" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.17944">Oxyphotobacteria</identifier>
      <authority>(Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988</authority>
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        <authority>(Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988</authority>
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          <authority>Woese et al. 1990</authority>
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            <authority>(None 2015) Woese et al. 1990</authority>
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                <authority>(Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988</authority>
                <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Oxyphotobacteriae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.21213" illegitimate="false" is-current="false" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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          <authority>(Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.29986" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.29987" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.3689" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.29986">Melainabacteria</identifier>
          <authority>Di Rienzi et al. 2013</authority>
          <status candidatus="true" conserved="false" current-name="Melainabacteria" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.29986" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="NVP" />
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.17945" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.23208" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.17945">Photobacteria</identifier>
          <authority>Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.34908" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.34909" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.34908">Sericytochromatia</identifier>
          <authority>Soo et al. 2017</authority>
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        <name-status-group>
          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.23208" rank="order" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.23208">Cyanobacteriales</identifier>
          <authority>(Stanier 1973) Gibbons and Murray 1978</authority>
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      <reference id="rid.9009">
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          <authors>
            <person-name>
              <surname>Murray</surname>
              <given-names>R.G.E.</given-names>
            </person-name>
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          <editors>
            <person-name>
              <surname>Holt</surname>
              <given-names>J.G.</given-names>
            </person-name>
          </editors>
          <article-title>The Higher Taxa, or, a Place for Everything...?</article-title>
          <year>1984</year>
          <volume>1</volume>
          <edition>1</edition>
          <fpage>31</fpage>
          <lpage>34</lpage>
          <source id="520">Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
          <publisher-name>The Williams and Wilkins Co.</publisher-name>
          <publisher-loc>Baltimore</publisher-loc>
        </citation>
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      <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="19:06:50" time-formatted="19:06 PM" />
      <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-08-08" date-formatted="August 8, 2019" time="13:43:57" time-formatted="13:43 PM" />
      <created curator="Charles Parker" date="2017-01-19" date-formatted="January 19, 2017" time="21:33:06" time-formatted="21:33 PM" />
      <public-note>The nomenclatural type was cited as Chroococcales on Validation List 25, which contradicts Gibbons and Murray 1978.</public-note>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.21213" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.23208" rank="subclass" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.21213">Oxyphotobacteriae</identifier>
          <authority>Gibbons and Murray 1978</authority>
          <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Oxyphotobacteriae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.21213" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="NVP" />
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    <reference id="rid.9009">
      <citation citation-type="book">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Murray</surname>
            <given-names>R.G.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <editors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Holt</surname>
            <given-names>J.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </editors>
        <article-title>The Higher Taxa, or, a Place for Everything...?</article-title>
        <year>1984</year>
        <volume>1</volume>
        <edition>1</edition>
        <fpage>31</fpage>
        <lpage>34</lpage>
        <source id="520">Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <publisher-name>The Williams and Wilkins Co.</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Baltimore</publisher-loc>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.21210">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Soo</surname>
            <given-names>R.M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hemp</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Parks</surname>
            <given-names>D.H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Fischer</surname>
            <given-names>W.W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria.</article-title>
        <year>2017</year>
        <volume>355</volume>
        <issue>6332</issue>
        <fpage>1436</fpage>
        <lpage>1440</lpage>
        <source id="782">Science Magazine</source>
        <abbrev>Science</abbrev>
        <issn>0036-8075</issn>
        <essn>1095-9203</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1126/science.aal3794</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">28360330</pub-id>
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    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.5108">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>List Editor</surname>
            <given-names />
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. List No. 25.</article-title>
        <year>1988</year>
        <volume>38</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>220</fpage>
        <lpage>222</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">10.1099/00207713-38-2-220</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.15557">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes</surname>
            <given-names />
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79.</article-title>
        <year>2014</year>
        <volume>64</volume>
        <issue>10</issue>
        <fpage>3599</fpage>
        <lpage>3602</lpage>
        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>1466-5026</issn>
        <essn>1466-5034</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/ijs.0.069310-0</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25288668</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="19:06:50" time-formatted="19:06 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-08-08" date-formatted="August 8, 2019" time="13:43:57" time-formatted="13:43 PM" />
    <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-04-21" date-formatted="April 21, 2010" time="14:31:16" time-formatted="14:31 PM" />
    <curatorial-note>TODO (garrity): Soo et al. 2017 attempts to bring this name back into use, this needs to be sorted out.</curatorial-note>
    <public-note>Soo et al. 2017, "We therefore propose to reinstigate the name Oxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) to describe all photosynthetic cyanobacteria (including chloroplasts) in a single class. Gr. adj. oxus, acidor sour and in combined words indicating oxygen; Gr. n. phos photos, light; Gr. n. bak.te'ri.a, staff, cane; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Oxyphotobacteria, light-requiring bacteria that produce oxygen."</public-note>
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