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]

We propose that this isolate should be recognized as a new species and should be named Halococcus salifodinae. The type strain is Blp (= ATCC 51437 = DSM 8989). A chemotaxonomically similar microorganism was isolated from a British salt mine.

The data suggested that Halococcus salifodinae, a viable isolate from Permian rock salt deposits, has not developed a novel cell wall type, but possesses most likely a similarly structured, but modified heteropolysaccharide as the closely related species Halococcus morrhuae.

Halococcus salifodinae BIpT DSM 8989T, an extremely halophilic archaeal isolate from an Austrian salt deposit (Bad Ischl), whose origin was dated to the Permian period, was described in 1994. Subsequently, several strains of the species have been isolated, some from similar but geographically separa …