Halorhabdus tiamatea Antunes et al., 2008
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Euryarchaeota
- phylum
- Euryarchaeota
- class
- Halobacteria
- order
- Halobacteriales
- family
- Haloarculaceae
- genus
- Halorhabdus
- species
- Halorhabdus tiamatea
Abstract
Halorhabdus tiamatea is a halophilic archaeon isolated from the Red Sea. With its extremely high salinity optimum of 27% NaCl, Halorhabdus has one of the highest reported salinity optima of any living organism.
Genome structure
The genome of Halorhabdus was sequenced in August 2014. The G + C content of its DNA is estimated to be 64%.