Draft genome sequence of DSM 21565 an anaerobic, slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from a Colombian saline spring.

A bacterium belonging to the phylum , genus was isolated in 2007 from a saline spring in Colombia. USBA 82 ( is a mesophilic, strictly anaerobic, slightly halophilic, Gram negative bacterium with a diderm cell envelope. The strain ferments peptides, amino acids and a few organic acids.