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          <authority>Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993</authority>
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          <authority>Hirayama et al. 2014 non Methylothermaceae Tindall 2019</authority>
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              <surname>Tindall</surname>
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          <article-title>On the nomenclatural types of Methylothermus thermalis Tsubota et al. 2005, Methylothermus Tsubota et al. 2005 and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2014, their status under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and valid publication of the names Methylothermus gen. nov., Methylothermus subterraneus Hirayama et al. and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al.</article-title>
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