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          <authority>(Smit 1930) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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          <authority>Zinder et al. 1985</authority>
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          <authority>Shimizu et al. 2015</authority>
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          <authority>Lyimo et al. 2000</authority>
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          <authority>Sowers et al. 1986</authority>
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          <authority>Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1992</authority>
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          <authority>None 2015</authority>
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          <authority>Shimizu et al. 2011</authority>
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          <authority>Zhilina and Zavarzin 1987</authority>
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          <authority>Simankova et al. 2002</authority>
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          <authority>Wagner et al. 2013</authority>
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            <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.232" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.150" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.232">Methanosarcina frisia</identifier>
            <authority>(Blotevogel et al. 1986) Blotevogel and Fischer 1989</authority>
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            <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.150" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.150" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.150">Methanococcus frisius</identifier>
            <authority>Blotevogel et al. 1986</authority>
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              <authors>
                <person-name>
                  <surname>List Editor</surname>
                  <given-names />
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              <article-title>Validation List no. 22.  Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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              <fpage>573</fpage>
              <lpage>576</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">10.1099/00207713-36-4-573</pub-id>
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                <person-name>
                  <surname>Wright</surname>
                  <given-names>A-D.G.</given-names>
                </person-name>
                <person-name>
                  <surname>Pimm</surname>
                  <given-names>C.</given-names>
                </person-name>
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              <article-title>Improved strategy for presumptive identification of methanogens using 16S riboprinting</article-title>
              <year>2003</year>
              <volume>55</volume>
              <issue>2</issue>
              <fpage>337</fpage>
              <lpage>349</lpage>
              <source id="1180">Journal of Microbiological Methods</source>
              <abbrev>J Microbiol Methods</abbrev>
              <issn>0167-7012</issn>
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                <person-name>
                  <surname>Blotevogel</surname>
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