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      <authority>Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009</authority>
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      <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.306" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.306">Haloferax volcanii</identifier>
      <authority>(Mullakhanbhai and Larsen 1975) Torreblanca et al. 1986</authority>
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        <authority>Woese et al. 1990</authority>
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          <authority>Woese et al. 1990</authority>
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            <authority>(sic) Garrity and Holt 2001</authority>
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            <authority>corrig. Garrity and Holt 2001</authority>
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              <authority>(Cavalier-Smith 2002) Grant et al. 2002 emend. Gupta et al. 2015</authority>
              <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Halobacteria" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.269" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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                <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.26388" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.305" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="order" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.26388">Haloferacales</identifier>
                <authority>Gupta et al. 2015</authority>
                <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferacales" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.26388" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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            <ancestor doi="10.1601/tx.26389" rank="family">
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                  <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.26389" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.305" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="family" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.26389">Haloferacaceae</identifier>
                  <authority>Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016</authority>
                  <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferacaceae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.26389" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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              <ancestor doi="10.1601/tx.305" rank="genus">
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                    <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.305" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.306" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.305">Haloferax</identifier>
                    <authority>Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009</authority>
                    <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.305" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.26389" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.305" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="family" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.26389">Haloferacaceae</identifier>
        <authority>Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferacaceae" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.26389" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.22692" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.22693" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.22693" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.22692">Halobellus</identifier>
        <authority>Cui et al. 2011 emend. Zhang et al. 2013</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Halobellus" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.22692" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <sibling doi="10.1601/tx.312" rank="genus">
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.312" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.313" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.313" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.312">Halogeometricum</identifier>
        <authority>Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998 emend. Cui et al. 2010</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Halogeometricum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.312" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.20074" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.20075" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.20075" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.20074">Halopelagius</identifier>
        <authority>Cui et al. 2010 emend. Zhang et al. 2013</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Halopelagius" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.20074" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10391" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.10775" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.10775" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10391">Haloplanus</identifier>
        <authority>Elevi Bardavid et al. 2007 emend. Qiu et al. 2013</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloplanus" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.10391" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10392" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.10776" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.10776" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10392">Haloquadratum</identifier>
        <authority>Burns et al. 2007</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloquadratum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.10392" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <sibling doi="10.1601/tx.13097" rank="genus">
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.13097" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.13725" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.13725" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.13097">Halosarcina</identifier>
        <authority>Savage et al. 2008 emend. Cui et al. 2010</authority>
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.28704" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.28705" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.28705" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.28704">Haloparvum</identifier>
        <authority>Chen et al. 2016</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloparvum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.28704" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <sibling doi="10.1601/tx.29481" rank="genus">
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.29481" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.29482" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.29482" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.29481">Haloprofundus</identifier>
        <authority>Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Li et al. 2021</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloprofundus" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.29481" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.19286" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.19287" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.19287" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.19286">Halogranum</identifier>
        <authority>Cui et al. 2010 emend. Cui et al. 2011</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Halogranum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.19286" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.35728" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.35729" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.35729" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.35728">Halegenticoccus</identifier>
        <authority>Liu et al. 2020</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.12192" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.310" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.310">Haloferax lucentensis</identifier>
        <authority>(sic) Gutierrez et al. 2004</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax lucentense" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.310" illegitimate="false" is-current="false" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.310" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.310" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.310">Haloferax lucentense</identifier>
        <authority>corrig. Gutierrez et al. 2004</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax lucentense" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.310" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10765" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.10765" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10765">Haloferax prahovense</identifier>
        <authority>Enache et al. 2007</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax prahovense" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.10765" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.306" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.285" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.306">Haloferax volcanii</identifier>
        <authority>(Mullakhanbhai and Larsen 1975) Torreblanca et al. 1986</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax volcanii" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.306" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.13342" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.13342" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.13342">Haloferax elongans</identifier>
        <authority>Allen et al. 2008</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax elongans" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.13342" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <child doi="10.1601/tx.307" rank="species">
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.307" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.307" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.307">Haloferax alexandrinus</identifier>
        <authority>Asker and Ohta 2002</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax alexandrinus" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.307" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.10764" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.10764" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.10764">Haloferax larsenii</identifier>
        <authority>Xu et al. 2007</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax larsenii" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.10764" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <child doi="10.1601/tx.19735" rank="species">
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.19735" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.19735">Haloferax sp.</identifier>
        <authority>None 2015</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax sp." current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.19735" illegitimate="true" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="NVP" />
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.24681" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.24681" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.24681">Haloferax chudinovii</identifier>
        <authority>Saralov et al. 2014</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax chudinovii" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.24681" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <child doi="10.1601/tx.308" rank="species">
    <nomenclature xmlns="http://namesforlife.com/ns/common">
      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.308" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.275" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.308">Haloferax denitrificans</identifier>
        <authority>(Tomlinson et al. 1986) Tindall et al. 1989</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax denitrificans" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.308" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <child doi="10.1601/tx.13343" rank="species">
    <nomenclature xmlns="http://namesforlife.com/ns/common">
      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.13343" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.13343" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.13343">Haloferax mucosum</identifier>
        <authority>Allen et al. 2008</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax mucosum" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.13343" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.8603" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.8603" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.8603">Haloferax sulfurifontis</identifier>
        <authority>Elshahed et al. 2004</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax sulfurifontis" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.8603" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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  <child doi="10.1601/tx.311" rank="species">
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      <name-status-group>
        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.311" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.279" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.311">Haloferax mediterranei</identifier>
        <authority>(Rodriguez-Valera et al. 1983) Torreblanca et al. 1987</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Haloferax mediterranei" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.311" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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