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        <public-note>By unanimous consent, the Judicial Commission voted to reject all of the names proposed by Cavalier-Smith (Minute 22 of the XIIth International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey).</public-note>
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          <article-title>Proposals concerning the higher taxa of Bacteria</article-title>
          <year>1978</year>
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          <issue>1</issue>
          <fpage>1</fpage>
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          </authors>
          <article-title>Prochloron, type genus of the Prochlorophyta</article-title>
          <year>1977</year>
          <volume>16</volume>
          <issue>2</issue>
          <fpage>217</fpage>
          <lpage>217</lpage>
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              <surname>Mur</surname>
              <given-names>L.R.</given-names>
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          </authors>
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          <year>1989</year>
          <volume>39</volume>
          <issue>3</issue>
          <fpage>250</fpage>
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        <article-title>Group II. Order Prochorales Lewin 1977, 216 (VP)</article-title>
        <year>1989</year>
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        <edition>1</edition>
        <fpage>1799</fpage>
        <lpage>1806</lpage>
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    <curatorial-note>It is possible that one of the novel taxa proposed by Komarek will replace this one.</curatorial-note>
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