A hyperthermophilic anaerobic archeon, strain HT3, was isolated from hydrothermal hot spring in Northeast Algeria. The strain is a regular coccus, highly motile, obligatory anaerobic, heterotrophic. It utilizes proteinaceous complex media (peptone, tryptone or yeast extract). Sulfur is reduced to Hydrogen sulfide and enhances growth. It shares with other Pyrococcus species the heterotrophic mode of nutrition, the hyperthermophily, the ability to utilize amino acids as sole carbon and nitrogen sources and the ether lipid composition. The optimal growth occurs at 80-85 degrees C, pH 7.5 and 1.5% NaCl. The G + C content was 43 mol%. Considering its morphology, physiological properties, nutritional features and phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing, this strain is described as a new terrestrial isolate pertaining to the genus Pyrococcus.

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