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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.23208" rank="order" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.23208">Cyanobacteriales</identifier>
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            <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.419" rank="domain" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.419">Bacteria</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.625" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.625">Cyanobacteria</identifier>
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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>Di Rienzi et al. 2013</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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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.21213" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.23208" rank="subclass" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.21213">Oxyphotobacteriae</identifier>
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              <surname>Gibbons</surname>
              <given-names>N.E.</given-names>
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            <person-name>
              <surname>Murray</surname>
              <given-names>R.G.E.</given-names>
            </person-name>
          </authors>
          <article-title>Proposals concerning the higher taxa of Bacteria</article-title>
          <year>1978</year>
          <volume>28</volume>
          <issue>1</issue>
          <fpage>1</fpage>
          <lpage>6</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">10.1099/00207713-28-1-1</pub-id>
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      <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-05-29" date-formatted="May 29, 2010" time="15:35:31" time-formatted="15:35 PM" />
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    <reference id="rid.7742">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Gibbons</surname>
            <given-names>N.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Murray</surname>
            <given-names>R.G.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Proposals concerning the higher taxa of Bacteria</article-title>
        <year>1978</year>
        <volume>28</volume>
        <issue>1</issue>
        <fpage>1</fpage>
        <lpage>6</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">10.1099/00207713-28-1-1</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.1300">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Skerman</surname>
            <given-names>V.B.D.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>McGowan</surname>
            <given-names>V.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Sneath</surname>
            <given-names>P.H.A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Approved Lists of Bacterial Names</article-title>
        <year>1980</year>
        <volume>30</volume>
        <issue>1</issue>
        <fpage>225</fpage>
        <lpage>420</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">10.1099/00207713-30-1-225</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>
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    </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="2018-03-02" date-formatted="March 2, 2018" time="13:49:54" time-formatted="13:49 PM" />
    <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-04-21" date-formatted="April 21, 2010" time="14:34:18" time-formatted="14:34 PM" />
    <curatorial-note>TODO (garrity): Tindall asserts that the type order is Rhodospirilalles (differs from Gibbons and Murray 1978).</curatorial-note>
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