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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.33708" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.33709" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.33709" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.33708">Syngnamidia</identifier>
        <authority>Fehr et al. 2013</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.35200" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.34574" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.34574" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.34573">Neptunichlamydia</identifier>
        <authority>corrig. Pizzetti et al. 2016</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.7787" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.7787" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.7787">Simkania negevensis</identifier>
        <authority>Everett et al. 1999 emend. García-López et al. 2019</authority>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Everett</surname>
            <given-names>K.D.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Bush</surname>
            <given-names>R.M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Andersen</surname>
            <given-names>A.A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms.</article-title>
        <year>1999</year>
        <volume>49</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>415</fpage>
        <lpage>440</lpage>
        <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
        <issn>0020-7713</issn>
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        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10319462</pub-id>
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    <modified curator="Sarah Wigley" date="2009-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2009" time="13:41:15" time-formatted="13:41 PM" />
    <created curator="Sarah Wigley" date="2009-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2009" time="13:41:15" time-formatted="13:41 PM" />
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