Taxonomic note: Transfer of Amoebobacter purpureus to the genus Pfennigia gen. nov., as Pfennigia purpurea comb. nov., on the basis of the illegitimate proposal to make Amoebobacter purpureus the type species of the genus Amoebobacter

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