Halococcus morrhuae (DSM 1308, CCM 859, L.A. 7.2)

Name: Halococcus morrhuae (DSM 1308, CCM 859, L.A. 7.2)
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BacDive ID 5917

Type strain

Strain Designation L.A. 7.2

Culture col. no. DSM 1308 CCM 859 L.A. 7.2

NCBI tax ID(s) 2250

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History <- CCM <- C.B. van Niel, L.A. 7.2 <- B. Elazari-Volcani

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Halococcus morrhuae L.A. 7.2 is a mesophilic prokaryote of the family Halococcaceae.

mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47355

DSM 1308,CCM 859,CECT 393

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:05

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halococcaceae

Genus Halococcus

Species Halococcus morrhuae

Full scientific name Halococcus morrhuae (Farlow 1880) Kocur and Hodgkiss 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Sarcina morrhuae"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halococcus morrhuae** (5)	Type strain
5916	H. morrhuae L.D. 3.1, DSM 1307, ATCC 17082, CCM 537, ... (type strain)
5918	H. morrhuae 24, DSM 1309, CCM 2226
5919	H. morrhuae DSM 1310, CCM 2526, NCMB 778
162834	H. morrhuae JCM 20262, IAM 1711
162835	H. morrhuae JCM 20263, IAM 1712

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
506	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
506	HALOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 146)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 146) Composition: NaCl 200.0 g/l Skim milk 50.0 g/l Agar 25.0 g/l Glycerol 10.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 10.0 g/l Neopeptone 5.0 g/l KNO3 2.0 g/l Fe(III) citrate Distilled water
506	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)	Range
506	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

506

Geographic locationDead Sea

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
506	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

506

GC-content (mol%)57.1

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Immunologic distinctiveness of archaebacteria that grow in high salt.	Conway de Macario E, Konig H, Macario AJ.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.168.1.425-427.1986	1986
Properties of Halococcus salifodinae, an Isolate from Permian Rock Salt Deposits, Compared with Halococci from Surface Waters.	Legat A, Denner EB, Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer M, Pfeiffer P, Knopf B, Claus H, Gruber C, Konig H, Wanner G, Stan-Lotter H.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life3010244	2013
Halococcus morrhuae: a sulfated heteropolysaccharide as the structural component of the bacterial cell wall.	Steber J, Schleifer KH	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/BF00447133	1975

References

#506	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1308
#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 )
#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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Halococcus morrhuae (DSM 1308, CCM 859, L.A. 7.2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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