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                  <authority>Hirayama et al. 2014 non Methylothermaceae Tindall 2019</authority>
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        <authority>Whittenbury and Krieg 1984 emend. Bowman et al. 1993</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33858" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.33859" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.13428" rank="family" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33858">Incertae sedis 415</identifier>
        <authority>Orata et al. 2018</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.34498" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.34499" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.22663" rank="family" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.34498">Methylothermaceae</identifier>
        <authority>(Hirayama et al. 2014) Tindall 2019 non Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2014</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.9619" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.9618" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.9618" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.9619">Methylothermus</identifier>
        <authority>Tsubota et al. 2005 emend. Hirayama et al. 2011 non Methylothermus Tindall 2019</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.25228" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.25229" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.25229" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.25228">Methylomarinovum</identifier>
        <authority>Hirayama et al. 2014</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Methylomarinovum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.25228" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.9614" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.9613" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.9613" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.9614">Methylohalobius</identifier>
        <authority>Heyer et al. 2005</authority>
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    <reference id="rid.14869">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hirayama</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Abe</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Miyazaki</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Nunoura</surname>
            <given-names>T.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Furushima</surname>
            <given-names>Y.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Yamamoto</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Takai</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Methylomarinovum caldicuralii gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic methanotroph isolated from a shallow submarine hydrothermal system, and proposal of the family Methylothermaceae fam. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2014</year>
        <volume>64</volume>
        <issue>3</issue>
        <fpage>989</fpage>
        <lpage>999</lpage>
        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>1466-5026</issn>
        <essn>1466-5034</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/ijs.0.058172-0</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24425820</pub-id>
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    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-06-12" date-formatted="June 12, 2019" time="17:10:29" time-formatted="17:10 PM" />
    <created curator="NamesforLife Curator" date="2014-03-14" date-formatted="March 14, 2014" time="14:29:31" time-formatted="14:29 PM" />
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