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        <authority>Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017</authority>
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        <authority>Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017</authority>
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        <authority>Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022</authority>
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        <authority>Lee et al. 2008</authority>
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        <authority>Mori et al. 2011</authority>
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        <authority>Wang et al. 2015</authority>
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        <authority>Du et al. 2015</authority>
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        <authority>Kojima et al. 2017</authority>
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        <authority>Boden 2017</authority>
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        <authority>McIlroy et al. 2014</authority>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Pfennig</surname>
            <given-names>N.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Trüper</surname>
            <given-names>H.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Conservation of the Family Name Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 with the Type Genus Chromatium Perty 1852 Request for an Opinion</article-title>
        <year>1971</year>
        <volume>21</volume>
        <issue>1</issue>
        <fpage>15</fpage>
        <lpage>16</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">10.1099/00207713-21-1-15</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.8973">
      <citation citation-type="book">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Bavendamm</surname>
            <given-names>W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <editors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Bavendamm</surname>
            <given-names>W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </editors>
        <article-title>Familie: Thiocapsaceae</article-title>
        <year>1924</year>
        <volume>2</volume>
        <edition>1</edition>
        <fpage>118</fpage>
        <lpage>120</lpage>
        <source id="1155">Die farblosen und roten Schwefelbakterien des Süß-und Salzwassers</source>
        <publisher-name>Verlag von Gustav Fischer</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Berlin-Dahlem</publisher-loc>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="19:06:55" time-formatted="19:06 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2017-02-10" date-formatted="February 10, 2017" time="19:08:14" time-formatted="19:08 PM" />
    <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-04-21" date-formatted="April 21, 2010" time="15:36:16" time-formatted="15:36 PM" />
    <public-note>The original circumscription of Thiocapsaceae Bavendamm 1924 also included the genus Thiosarcina, which was not included on the Approved Lists.</public-note>
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