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        <authority>Sood et al. 2015</authority>
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        <authority>Zhou et al. 2022</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.32959" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.32959" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.32959">Simulacricoccus ruber</identifier>
        <authority>Garcia and Müller 2018</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Simulacricoccus ruber" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.32959" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Garcia</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Müller</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Simulacricoccus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a microaerotolerant, non-fruiting, myxospore-forming soil myxobacterium and emended description of the family Myxococcaceae.</article-title>
        <year>2018</year>
        <volume>68</volume>
        <issue>10</issue>
        <fpage>3101</fpage>
        <lpage>3110</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/ijsem.0.002936</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">30113300</pub-id>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="22:13:19" time-formatted="22:13 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2018-09-20" date-formatted="September 20, 2018" time="17:18:25" time-formatted="17:18 PM" />
    <created curator="Charles Parker" date="2018-09-20" date-formatted="September 20, 2018" time="17:09:29" time-formatted="17:09 PM" />
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