title: Haloarcula marismortui (Volcani) sp. nov., nom. rev., an extremely halophilic bacterium from the Dead Sea.
abstract: An extremely halophilic red archaebacterium isolated from the Dead Sea (Ginzburg et al., J. Gen. Physiol. 55: 187-207, 1970) belongs to the genus Haloarcula and differs sufficiently from the previously described species of the genus to be designated a new species; we propose the name Haloarcula marismortui (Volcani) sp. nov., nom. rev. because of the close resemblance of this organism to "Halobacterium marismortui," which was first described by Volcani in 1940.  The type strain is strain ATCC 43049.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oren
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ginzburg
authors.forename: B Z
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Ginzburg
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Hochstein
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Volcani
mesh_terms: D001105:Archaea / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D006217:Halobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D008386:Marine Biology; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D009626:Terminology as Topic