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          <authority>(None 2015) Woese et al. 1990</authority>
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            <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.31475" rank="phylum" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.31475">Incertae sedis 212</identifier>
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              <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.17918" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.810" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.813" rank="class" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.17918">Anoxyphotobacteria</identifier>
              <authority>(Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.31475" rank="phylum" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.31475">Incertae sedis 212</identifier>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.17919" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.810" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.813" rank="subclass" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.17919">Anoxyphotobacteriae</identifier>
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            <surname>Murray</surname>
            <given-names>R.G.E.</given-names>
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        <editors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Holt</surname>
            <given-names>J.G.</given-names>
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        <article-title>The Higher Taxa, or, a Place for Everything...?</article-title>
        <year>1984</year>
        <volume>1</volume>
        <edition>1</edition>
        <fpage>31</fpage>
        <lpage>34</lpage>
        <source id="520">Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <publisher-name>The Williams and Wilkins Co.</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Baltimore</publisher-loc>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="19:06:37" time-formatted="19:06 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2018-03-02" date-formatted="March 2, 2018" time="16:15:38" time-formatted="16:15 PM" />
    <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-06-14" date-formatted="June 14, 2010" time="08:09:28" time-formatted="8:09 AM" />
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