Haloferax larsenii (DSM 27190, CGMCC 1.5347, JCM 13917)

Name: Haloferax larsenii (DSM 27190, CGMCC 1.5347, JCM 13917)
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BacDive ID 24077

Type strain

Strain Designation ZJ206

Culture col. no. DSM 27190 CGMCC 1.5347 JCM 13917 ZJ206

NCBI tax ID(s) 1227460 302484

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- JCM <- X.-W. Xu, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China; ZJ206 X.-W. Xu ZJ206.

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Haloferax larsenii ZJ206 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile archaeon that was isolated from solar saltern.

Gram-negative motile aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 301373

JCM 13917,CGMCC 1.5347,DSM 27190

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:52

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloferacaceae

Genus Haloferax

Species Haloferax larsenii

Full scientific name Haloferax larsenii Xu et al. 2007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell width	Motility
31872	negative	0.8-1.5 µm

Pigmentation

31872

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20966	HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372) Composition: NaCl 200.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Casamino acids 5.0 g/l Na3-citrate 3.0 g/l KCl 2.0 g/l Na glutamate 1.0 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.036 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00036 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20966	positive	growth	37
31872	positive	growth	25-55
31872	positive	optimum	42-45
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31872	positive	optimum	6.5-7
31872	positive	growth	6-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31872

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.7

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31872	NaCl	positive	growth	5.8-27.84 %
31872	NaCl	positive	optimum	12.76-19.72 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31872	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
31872	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
31872	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31872	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
31872	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
31872	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
31872	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31872	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
31872	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
31872	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
31872	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
31872	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
31872	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
31872	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
31872	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
31872	35581 ChEBI	indole	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31872	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31872	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
20966	solar saltern	Zhe-Jiang Province	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Solar saltern in Zhe-Jiang Province		China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY838278 (>99% sequence identity) for Haloferax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	21
Soil Samples	8
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	31

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20966	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM33695v1 assembly for Haloferax larsenii JCM 13917	contig	GCA_000336955	1227460.3	2554235500	1227460	44.06

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20966	Haloferax larsenii strain ZJ206 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY838278	1473		302484
124043	Haloferax larsenii gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 13917.	AB663377	1473		302484

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
20966	62.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
31872	61.4-63

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Haloferax larsenii JCM 13917
NCBI: GCA_000336955

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	70.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	89.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	76.60	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.70	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Lipidomic chemotaxonomy aligned with phylogeny of Halobacteria.	Yao W, Zhang W, He W, Xiao W, Chen Y, Zhu Y, Zheng F, Zhang C.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1297600	2023
	Tat-fimbriae ("tafi"): An unusual type of haloarchaeal surface structure depending on the twin-arginine translocation pathway.	Galeva AV, Zhao D, Syutkin AS, Topilina MY, Shchyogolev SY, Pavlova EY, Selivanova OM, Kireev II, Surin AK, Burygin GL, Liu J, Xiang H, Pyatibratov MG.	iScience	10.1016/j.isci.2025.111793	2025
Metabolism	Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Haloferax volcanii.	Ouellette M, Makkay AM, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00376	2013
	Activation of a dormant replication origin is essential for Haloferax mediterranei lacking the primary origins.	Yang H, Wu Z, Liu J, Liu X, Wang L, Cai S, Xiang H.	Nat Commun	10.1038/ncomms9321	2015
Metabolism	Activity-guided separation and characterization of new halocin HA3 from fermented broth of Haloferax larsenii HA3.	Kumar V, Tiwari SK	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-017-0930-6	2017
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota from hypersaline cinders, sediments and soils and description of a novel CO oxidizer, Haloferax namakaokahaiae Mke2.3T, sp. nov.	McDuff S, King GM, Neupane S, Myers MR	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1093/femsec/fiw028	2016
Phylogeny	Haloferax larsenii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a solar saltern.	Xu XW, Wu YH, Wang CS, Oren A, Zhou PJ, Wu M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64573-0	2007

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#20966	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27190
#28132	IJSEM 717 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64573-0 , PubMed 17392193 )
#31872	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28132
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Haloferax larsenii (DSM 27190, CGMCC 1.5347, JCM 13917)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000336955

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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