''Halococcus salifodinae'' is an extremely
halophilic
A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
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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
Further reading
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*Hanslmeier, Arnold, Stephan Kempe, and Joseph Seckbach, eds. Life on Earth and Other Planetary Bodies. Vol. 24. Springer, 2012.
*Gunde-Cimerman, Nina, Aharon Oren, and Ana Plemenitaš, eds. Adaptation to life at high salt concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. Vol. 9. Springer, 2006.
External links
LPSN*
Type strain of ''Halococcus salifodinae'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Euryarchaeota
Archaea described in 1994
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