Halococcus salifodinae

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).^[1]

Halococcus salifodinae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Halobacteriota
Class:	Halobacteria
Order:	Halobacteriales
Family:	Halococcaceae
Genus:	Halococcus
Species:	H. salifodinae
Binomial name
Halococcus salifodinae Denner et al. 1994