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              <authority>(sic) Garrity et al. 2021</authority>
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                <authority>Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013</authority>
                <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Gammaproteobacteria" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.2068" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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                    <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Methylococcaceae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.2401" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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                      <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2423" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.2424" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2413" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2423">Methylomicrobium</identifier>
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          <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Methylococcaceae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.2401" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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          <authority>Wise et al. 2001 emend. Orata et al. 2018</authority>
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          <authority>Bodrossy et al. 1998 emend. Takeuchi et al. 2014</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2411" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.2412" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2406" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2411">Methylobacter</identifier>
          <authority>Bowman et al. 1993 emend. Bowman et al. 1995</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2437" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.2438" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2438" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2437">Methylosphaera</identifier>
          <authority>Bowman et al. 1998</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10405" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.10863" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.10863" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10405">Methylosoma</identifier>
          <authority>Rahalkar et al. 2007</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2402" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.2403" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2403" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2402">Methylococcus</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.21312" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.21313" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.21313" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.21312">Methylovulum</identifier>
          <authority>Iguchi et al. 2011 emend. Oshkin et al. 2016</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.22653" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.22654" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.22654" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.22653">Methylogaea</identifier>
          <authority>Geymonat et al. 2011</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.23905" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.23906" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.23906" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.23905">Methylomarinum</identifier>
          <authority>Hirayama et al. 2013</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.25530" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.25531" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.25531" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.25530">Methyloparacoccus</identifier>
          <authority>Hoefman et al. 2014</authority>
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          <authority>Tavormina et al. 2015</authority>
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          <authority>Deutzmann et al. 2015</authority>
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          <authority>Khalifa et al. 2015</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33666" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.33667" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.33667" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33666">Methylospira</identifier>
          <authority>Danilova et al. 2016</authority>
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          <authority>König et al. 2016</authority>
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