| Halobacterium salinarum | |
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| Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 Size bar = 270 nm | |
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| Halobacterium salinarum corrig. (Harrison and Kennedy 1922)
Elazari-Volcani 1957 | |
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Pseudomonas salinaria Harrison and Kennedy 1922 | |
Halobacterium salinarum, formerly known as Halobacterium cutirubrum or Halobacterium halobium, is an extremely halophilic marine obligate aerobic archaeon. Despite its name, this is not a bacterium, but a member of the domain Archaea.[2] It is found in salted fish, hides, hypersaline lakes, and salterns. As these salterns reach the minimum salinity limits for extreme halophiles, their waters become purple or reddish color due to the high densities of halophilic Archaea.[2] H. salinarum has also been found in high-salt food such as salt pork, marine fish, and sausages. The ability of H. salinarum to live at such high salt concentrations has led to its classification as an extremophile.
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