Halorhabdus Wainø et al., 2000
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Euryarchaeota
- phylum
- Euryarchaeota
- class
- Halobacteria
- order
- Halobacteriales
- family
- Haloarculaceae
- genus
- Halorhabdus
Abstract
Halorhabdus is a genus of halophilic archaea in the Haloarculaceae. With an extremely high salinity optimum of 27% NaCl, Halorhabdus has one of the highest reported salinity optima of any living organism.