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        <authority>Romanovskaya et al. 2006</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2433" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2433" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2433">Methylomonas scandinavica</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33864" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2432" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33864">Methylotuvimicrobium pelagicum</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2416" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2432" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2416">Methylobacter pelagicus</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2432" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2432" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2432">Methylomonas pelagica</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.2427" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.2432" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.2427">Methylomicrobium pelagicum</identifier>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Bowman</surname>
                <given-names>J.P.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Sly</surname>
                <given-names>L.I.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Nichols</surname>
                <given-names>P.D.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Hayward</surname>
                <given-names>A.C.</given-names>
              </person-name>
            </authors>
            <article-title>Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen.nov., emendation of Methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the Group I Methanotrophs.</article-title>
            <year>1993</year>
            <volume>43</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>735</fpage>
            <lpage>753</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">10.1099/00207713-43-4-735</pub-id>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Bowman</surname>
                <given-names>J.P.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Sly</surname>
                <given-names>L.I.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Stackebrandt</surname>
                <given-names>E.</given-names>
              </person-name>
            </authors>
            <article-title>The phylogenetic position of the family Methylococcaceae.</article-title>
            <year>1995</year>
            <volume>45</volume>
            <issue>1</issue>
            <fpage>182</fpage>
            <lpage>185</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">10.1099/00207713-45-1-182</pub-id>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7857800</pub-id>
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        <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-03-04" date-formatted="March 4, 2019" time="22:18:30" time-formatted="22:18 PM" />
        <created curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2009-11-18" date-formatted="November 18, 2009" time="15:19:46" time-formatted="15:19 PM" />
        <public-note>This strain has been lost from culture collections. No information can be found online for strain ACM 3505. According to the NCIMB website, strain NCIMB 2265 is no longer available.</public-note>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Sieburth</surname>
            <given-names>J.M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Johnson</surname>
            <given-names>P.W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Eberhardt</surname>
            <given-names>M.A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Sieracki</surname>
            <given-names>M.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Lidstrom</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Laux</surname>
            <given-names>D.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>The first methane-oxidizing bacterium from the upper mixing layer of the deep ocean.: Methylomonas pelagica sp. nov.</article-title>
        <year>1987</year>
        <volume>14</volume>
        <fpage>285</fpage>
        <lpage>293</lpage>
        <source id="254">Current Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Curr Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0343-8651</issn>
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