Class Halobacteria Rank Species | Family Halobacteriaceae | |
Similar Halococcus, Halobacteriales, Halobacteriaceae, Halogeometricum, Haloterrigena | ||
Halococcus salifodinae is an extremely halophilic archaeon, first isolated in an Austrian salt mine. It is a coccoid cell with pink pigmentation, its type strain being Blp (= ATCC 51437 = DSM 8989).
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Halococcus salifodinae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA