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                      <authority>Hiraishi et al. 1995 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008</authority>
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        <authority>Srinivas et al. 2007 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008</authority>
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        <authority>(Imhoff 1984) Hiraishi et al. 1995</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.1608" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.1608" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.1608">Rhodobium orientis</identifier>
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                <surname>Hiraishi</surname>
                <given-names>A.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Urata</surname>
                <given-names>K.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Satoh</surname>
                <given-names>T.</given-names>
              </person-name>
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            <article-title>A new genus of marine budding phototrophic bacteria, Rhodobium gen. nov., which includes Rhodobium orientis sp. nov. and Rhodobium marinum comb. nov.</article-title>
            <year>1995</year>
            <volume>45</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>226</fpage>
            <lpage>234</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">10.1099/00207713-45-2-226</pub-id>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Urdiain</surname>
                <given-names>M.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>López-López</surname>
                <given-names>A.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Gonzalo</surname>
                <given-names>C.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Busse</surname>
                <given-names>H.J.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Langer</surname>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Kämpfer</surname>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Rosseló-Móra</surname>
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            <article-title>Reclassification of Rhodobium marinum and Rhodobium pfennigii as Afifella marina gen. nov. comb. nov. and Afifella pfennigii comb. nov., a new genus of photoheterotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and emended descriptions of Rhodobium, Rhodobium orientis and Rhodobium gokarnense.</article-title>
            <year>2008</year>
            <volume>31</volume>
            <issue>5</issue>
            <fpage>339</fpage>
            <lpage>351</lpage>
            <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
            <abbrev>Syst Appl Microbiol</abbrev>
            <issn>0723-2020</issn>
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        <year>1995</year>
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        <lpage>234</lpage>
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