Haloarchaea
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| Archaea Temporal range: Archaean – Recent |
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| Halobacteria sp. strain NRC-1, each cell about 5 μm long. | |
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
Haloarchaea are protists and members of the halophile community. They need a high salt concentrations to grow. They are a distinct evolutionary branch of the Archaea, and are extremophiles.
The term halobacteria is a misnomer (mistaken name), because we now know the archaea are a different group from bacteria.
In taxonomy, the Haloarchaea are a class of the Euryarchaeota,[1] found in water with salt. They are common in most environments where large amounts of salt, moisture, and organic material are available.
References [change]
- ↑ See the National Center for Biotechnology Information webpage on Halobacteria. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". NCBI. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
