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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.30741" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.30742" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.30742" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.30741">Aliinostoc</identifier>
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        <authority>Hrouzek et al. 2013</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33402" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.33402" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33402">Desikacharya nostocoides</identifier>
        <authority>Saraf et al. 2019</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33403" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.33403" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33403">Desikacharya soli</identifier>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33404" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.29894" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33404">Desikacharya thermotolerans</identifier>
        <authority>(Suradkar et al. 2017) Saraf et al. 2019</authority>
        <status candidatus="false" conserved="false" current-name="Desikacharya thermotolerans" current-name-doi="10.1601/nm.33404" illegitimate="false" is-current="true" rejected="false" revived="false" status-code="VP" />
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Saraf</surname>
            <given-names>A.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Dawda</surname>
            <given-names>H.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Singh</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Desikacharya gen. nov., a phylogenetically distinct genus of Cyanobacteria along with the description of two new species, Desikacharya nostocoides sp. nov. and Desikacharya soli sp. nov., and reclassification of Nostoc thermotolerans to Desikacharya thermotolerans comb. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2019</year>
        <volume>69</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>307</fpage>
        <lpage>315</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.0.003093</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">30520710</pub-id>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="22:20:19" time-formatted="22:20 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-01-29" date-formatted="January 29, 2019" time="20:23:18" time-formatted="20:23 PM" />
    <created curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-01-29" date-formatted="January 29, 2019" time="20:22:16" time-formatted="20:22 PM" />
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