Halobiforma haloterrestris

Halobiforma haloterrestris
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Halobacteria
Order: Halobacteriales
Family: Halobacteriaceae
Genus: Halobiforma
Species: H. haloterrestris
Binomial name
Halobiforma haloterrestris
Hezayen et al. 2002

Halobiforma haloterrestris is a red-pigmented, aerobic, extremely halophilic member of the Archaea, showing rod, coccus and slightly pleomorphic morphology. It is the type species of its genus. It is neutrophilic, motile, with type strain 135(T) (= DSM 13078(T) = JCM 11627(T)).[1]

References

  1. Hezayen, F. F. (2002). "Characterization of a novel halophilic archaeon, Halobiforma haloterrestris gen. nov., sp. nov., and transfer of Natronobacterium nitratireducens to Halobiforma nitratireducens comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (6): 2271–2280. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02324-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12508897.

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