Halorhabdus

Halorhabdus is a genus of halophilic archaeans 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.

Halorhabdus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Halobacteria
Order:	Halobacteriales
Family:	Haloarculaceae
Genus:	Halorhabdus Wainø et al. 2000 emend. Antunes et al. 2008[1]
Type species
Halorhabdus utahensis Wainø et al. 2000
Species
H. amylolytica H. rudnickae H. salina H. tiamatea H. utahensis

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[3][4][5]	53 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[6][7][8]
Halorhabdus H. rudnickae H. tiamatea H. utahensis	Halorhabdus H. tiamatea Antunes et al. 2008 H. utahensis Waino et al. 2000 H. salina Wang et al. 2022 H. amylolytica Wang et al. 2022 H. rudnickae Albuquerque et al. 2016

See also

• List of Archaea genera