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        <authority>(Baumann et al. 1984) Urakawa et al. 1999</authority>
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        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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            <article-title>Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. List No. 69.</article-title>
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            <article-title>Moritella japonica sp. nov., a novel barophilic bacterium isolated from a Japan Trench sediment.</article-title>
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        <article-title>Moritella japonica sp. nov., a novel barophilic bacterium isolated from a Japan Trench sediment.</article-title>
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