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                    <authority>None 2015</authority>
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          <authority>None 2015</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.31502" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.31503" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.31503" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.31502">Moorea</identifier>
          <authority>Engene et al. 2012</authority>
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          <authority>McNeill et al. 2006</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.708" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.708" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.708">Oscillatoria prolifera</identifier>
          <authority>McNeill et al. 2006</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.710" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.710" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.710">Oscillatoria tenuis</identifier>
          <authority>McNeill et al. 2006</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.704" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.704" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.704">Oscillatoria acuminata</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.705" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.705" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.705">Oscillatoria agardhii</identifier>
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        <name-status-group>
          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.17572" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.17572">Oscillatoria sp.</identifier>
          <authority>None 2015</authority>
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          <year>2007</year>
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          <issue>4</issue>
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      <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="14:06:34" time-formatted="14:06 PM" />
      <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2017-02-04" date-formatted="February 4, 2017" time="22:58:29" time-formatted="22:58 PM" />
      <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-05-25" date-formatted="May 25, 2010" time="10:17:16" time-formatted="10:17 AM" />
      <curatorial-note>TODO (garrity): Pringsheim 1949 (rid.795) placed this genus into Vitreoscillaceae AL, but we have placed it into an NVP taxon.</curatorial-note>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>McNeill</surname>
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