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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.19276" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.19276">Pyrococcus sp.</identifier>
        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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        <authority>Birrien et al. 2011</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.402" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.402" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.402">Pyrococcus woesei</identifier>
          <authority>Zillig et al. 1988</authority>
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        <reference id="rid.5611">
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            <authors>
              <person-name>
                <surname>List Editor</surname>
                <given-names />
              </person-name>
            </authors>
            <article-title>Validation List no. 24.  Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
            <year>1988</year>
            <volume>38</volume>
            <issue>1</issue>
            <fpage>136</fpage>
            <lpage>137</lpage>
            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
            <issn>0020-7713</issn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/00207713-38-1-136</pub-id>
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        <reference id="rid.11809">
          <citation citation-type="journal">
            <authors>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Kanoksilapatham</surname>
                <given-names>W.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>González</surname>
                <given-names>J.M.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Maeder</surname>
                <given-names>D.L.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>DiRuggiero</surname>
                <given-names>J.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Robb</surname>
                <given-names>F.K.</given-names>
              </person-name>
            </authors>
            <article-title>A proposal to rename the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus woesei as Pyrococcus furiosus subsp. woesei</article-title>
            <year>2004</year>
            <volume>1</volume>
            <fpage>277</fpage>
            <lpage>283</lpage>
            <source id="281">Archaea</source>
            <issn>1472-3646</issn>
            <essn>1472-3654</essn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2004/513563</pub-id>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">15810438</pub-id>
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        <modified curator="Kara Mannor" date="2010-07-14" date-formatted="July 14, 2010" time="14:33:05" time-formatted="14:33 PM" />
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        <curatorial-note>The GenBank record does not list a strain, however DSM 3773 is listed in rid.11809</curatorial-note>
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    <reference id="rid.5019">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Zillig</surname>
            <given-names>W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Holz</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Klenk</surname>
            <given-names>H.P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Trent</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Wunderl</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Janekovic</surname>
            <given-names>D.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Insel</surname>
            <given-names>E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Haas</surname>
            <given-names>B.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Pyrococcus woesei, sp. nov., an ultra-thermophilic marine archaebacterium, representing a novel order, Thermococcales.</article-title>
        <year>1987</year>
        <volume>9</volume>
        <issue>1-2</issue>
        <fpage>62</fpage>
        <lpage>70</lpage>
        <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Syst Appl Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0723-2020</issn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(87)80057-7</pub-id>
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