Halococcus salifodinae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Archaea |
Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
Class: | Halobacteria |
Order: | Halobacteriales |
Family: | Halobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Halococcus |
Species: | H. salifodinae |
Binomial name | |
Halococcus salifodinae Denner et al. 1994 |
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).