Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 668, ATCC 19700, 1)

Name: Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 668, ATCC 19700, 1)
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BacDive ID 5908

Type strain

Strain Designation 1

Culture col. no. DSM 668 ATCC 19700 1

NCBI tax ID(s) 2242

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- D. Keradjopoulos <- ATCC <- J. Stevenson <- H. Larsen, 1

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Halobacterium salinarum 1 is an archaeon that was isolated from salted fish.

16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 37077

ATCC 19700,DSM 668,IFO 14718,NBRC 14718,NRRL B-4020,CGMCC 1.2373

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:16

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halobacteriaceae

Genus Halobacterium

Species Halobacterium salinarum

Full scientific name Halobacterium salinarum corrig. (Harrison and Kennedy 1922) Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (9)

Halobacterium halobium
"Halobacter cutirubrum"
Halobacterium cutirubrum
"Bacterium halobium"
Halobacterium piscisalsi
Halobacterium salinarium
"Pseudomonas salinaria"
"Halobacter salinaria"
"Serratia cutirubra"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halobacterium salinarum** (13)	Type strain
5912	H. salinarum 91-R6, DSM 3754, ATCC 33171, JCM 8978, NCMB ... (type strain)
5909	H. salinarum 63-R2, DSM 669, ATCC 33170, NRC 34001, JCM ...
5910	H. salinarum DSM 670, JCM 20854, ATCC 43214, IAM 13167, ...
5911	H. salinarum R1, DSM 671, CCUG 24034, JCM 9409, ATCC 29341, ...
23038	H. salinarum DS21, GRB, DSM 22414
24073	H. salinarum GRB-mut326-P577, DSM 21899, MUT mut326, MUT ...
134335	H. salinarum HPC1-2, BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302
161096	H. salinarum JCM 10927
162900	H. salinarum JCM 20370, IAM 12046
165991	H. salinarum JCM 9118, CCM 2148
165992	H. salinarum JCM 9119, CCM 2088
165993	H. salinarum JCM 9120, CCM 2090
165994	H. salinarum JCM 9121, CCM 2084

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
351	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
351	HALOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 97)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 97) Composition: NaCl 250.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Casamino acids 7.5 g/l Na3-citrate 3.0 g/l KCl 2.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0002 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
351	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

351

CompoundL alanine dehydrogenase

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Host	#Fishes
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

351

Sample typesalted fish

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
351	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Halobacterium salinarum DSM 668	complete	2596583670	2242	91.43

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	H.salinarium 16S rRNA gene	X92978	868		2242

GC content

351

GC-content (mol%)67.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Evidence for natural horizontal transfer of the pcpB gene in the evolution of polychlorophenol-degrading sphingomonads.	Tiirola MA, Wang H, Paulin L, Kulomaa MS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.9.4495-4501.2002	2002
Phylogeny	Novel group within the kingdom Crenarchaeota from boreal forest soil.	Jurgens G, Lindstrom K, Saano A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.63.2.803-805.1997	1997
	Folic acid and pteroylpolyglutamate contents of archaebacteria.	Worrell VE, Nagle DP.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.170.9.4420-4423.1988	1988

References

#351	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 668
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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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Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 668, ATCC 19700, 1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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