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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2719" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2719" rank="subspecies" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2719">Azotobacter nigricans achromogenes</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.0" rank="root" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.0">Universal Root</identifier>
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                  <authority>Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Liao et al. 2020</authority>
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                    <authority>Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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                      <authority>Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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                        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10607" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2718" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10607">Azotobacter nigricans</identifier>
                        <authority>Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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                          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2719" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2719" rank="subspecies" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2719">Azotobacter nigricans achromogenes</identifier>
                          <authority>Thompson and Skerman 1981</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10607" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2718" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10607">Azotobacter nigricans</identifier>
          <authority>Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2718" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2718" rank="subspecies" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2718">Azotobacter nigricans nigricans</identifier>
          <authority>Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
          <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Azotobacter nigricans nigricans" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.2718" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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          <identifier is-laboratory-identifier="false" is-mixed-culture="false" is-non-viable="false" is-patent="false" is-symbiont="false" is-unavailable="false" is-variant="false" label="Jensen A-2" reference="rid.5130" source="reference" />
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            <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2719" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2719" rank="subspecies" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2719">Azotobacter nigricans achromogenes</identifier>
            <authority>Thompson and Skerman 1981</authority>
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                <person-name>
                  <surname>List Editor</surname>
                  <given-names />
                </person-name>
              </authors>
              <article-title>Validation List no. 6. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
              <year>1981</year>
              <volume>31</volume>
              <issue>2</issue>
              <fpage>215</fpage>
              <lpage>218</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">10.1099/00207713-31-2-215</pub-id>
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          <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="14:42:37" time-formatted="14:42 PM" />
          <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2018-05-07" date-formatted="May 7, 2018" time="11:46:10" time-formatted="11:46 AM" />
          <created curator="Sarah Wigley" date="2008-12-03" date-formatted="December 3, 2008" time="12:35:15" time-formatted="12:35 PM" />
          <curatorial-note>Note: This strain may be lost.</curatorial-note>
          <public-note>This strain may be lost.</public-note>
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              <surname>Thompson</surname>
              <given-names>J.P.</given-names>
            </person-name>
            <person-name>
              <surname>Skerman</surname>
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            <person-name>
              <surname>Skerman</surname>
              <given-names>V.B.D.</given-names>
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          <year>1979</year>
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          <source id="595">Azotobacteraceae: The Taxonomy and Ecology of the Aerobic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria</source>
          <publisher-name>Academic Press</publisher-name>
          <publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
          <isbn>0126890501</isbn>
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      <created curator="Nicole Osier" date="2008-09-03" date-formatted="September 3, 2008" time="15:45:08" time-formatted="15:45 PM" />
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        <year>1981</year>
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        <publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
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