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Halococcus salifodinae

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Domain
  
Archaea

Class
  
Halobacteria

Rank
  
Species

Genus
  
Halococcus

Kingdom
  
Euryarchaeota

Family
  
Halobacteriaceae

Phylum
  
Euryarchaeota

Order
  
Halobacteriales

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).

References

Halococcus salifodinae Wikipedia