Halobacteroides halobius

Halobacteroides halobius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Halanaerobiales
Family:	Halobacteroidaceae
Genus:	Halobacteroides
Species:	H. halobius
Binomial name
Halobacteroides halobius Oren et al. 1984 [1]
Type strain [2]
MD-1

Halobacteroides halobius is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is a moderately halophilic, anaerobic, long rod-shaped, motile, Gram-negative and non-sporulating bacterium. ^[2]

References

1. "Species: Halobacteroides halobius". lpsn.dsmz.de.
2. Oren, Aharon; Weisburg, William G.; Kessel, Martin; Woese, Carl R. (1984). "Halobacteroides halobius gen. nov., sp. nov., a Moderately Halophic Anaerobic Bacterium from the Bottom Sediments of the Dead Sea". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 5 (1): 58–70. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(84)80051-X. ISSN   0723-2020.

Further reading

• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 3. Springer, 2012.
• Oren, Aharon. "A procedure for the selective enrichment of Halobacteroides halobius and related bacteria from anaerobic hypersaline sediments."FEMS Microbiology Letters 42.2 (1987): 201–204.

External links

• J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
• Type strain of Halobacteroides halobius at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase