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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.11670" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.5558" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.5558">Melissococcus pluton</identifier>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.5558" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.5558" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.5558">Melissococcus plutonius</identifier>
        <authority>corrig. (ex White 1912) Bailey and Collins 1983</authority>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Bailey</surname>
            <given-names>L.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Collins</surname>
            <given-names>M.D.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Reclassification of Streptococcus pluton (White) in a new genus Melissococcus, as Melissococcus pluton nom. rev.; comb. nov.</article-title>
        <year>1982</year>
        <volume>53</volume>
        <fpage>215</fpage>
        <lpage>217</lpage>
        <source id="176">The Journal of Applied Bacteriology</source>
        <abbrev>J Appl Bacteriol</abbrev>
        <issn>0021-8847</issn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1365-2672.1982.tb04679.x</pub-id>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="15:39:51" time-formatted="15:39 PM" />
    <modified curator="Dorothea Rohlfs" date="2010-07-06" date-formatted="July 6, 2010" time="08:41:59" time-formatted="8:41 AM" />
    <created curator="Sarah Wigley" date="2009-05-07" date-formatted="May 7, 2009" time="16:46:31" time-formatted="16:46 PM" />
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