Genomic, Physiological, Biochemical, and Phenotypic Evidences Reveal a New Species, Halomicroarcula salaria sp. nov.

An extremely halophilic archaeon strain named FL173 was isolated from a salt mine (Anhui Province, China). Colonies on agar plate are orange-red, moist, and opaque. Cells are motile, Gram-stain-negative, polymorphic, and lyse in distilled water.