Halospina

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Halospina | authority = Sorokin et al. 2006<ref name=Halospina>{{cite journal |last1=Parte |first1=A.C. |title=Halospina |website=LPSN |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/halospina}}</ref> | type_species = ''Halospina denitrificans''<ref name=Halospina/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''H. denitrificans''<ref name=Halospina/> | synonyms = }}

'''''Halospina''''' is an extremely halophilic genus of bacteria from the family of Hahellaceae with one known species (''Halospina denitrificans'').<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=Charles Thomas |last2=Wigley |first2=Sarah |last3=Garrity |first3=George M |editor2-first=George M |editor2-last=Garrity |editor1-first=Charles Thomas |editor1-last=Parker |title=Taxonomic Abstract for the genera. |journal=The NamesforLife Abstracts |date=1 January 2003 |doi=10.1601/tx.9895 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Halospina/><ref name=PMID>{{cite journal |last1=Sorokin |first1=DY |last2=Tourova |first2=TP |last3=Galinski |first3=EA |last4=Belloch |first4=C |last5=Tindall |first5=BJ |title=Extremely halophilic denitrifying bacteria from hypersaline inland lakes, Halovibrio denitrificans sp. nov. and Halospina denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., and evidence that the genus name Halovibrio Fendrich 1989 with the type species Halovibrio variabilis should be associated with DSM 3050. |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |date=February 2006 |volume=56 |issue=Pt 2 |pages=379–88 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63964-0 |pmid=16449444|doi-access=free }}</ref> ''Halospina denitrificans'' has been isolated from sediments from a hypersaline lake.<ref name=PMID/>

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Category:Oceanospirillales Category:Bacteria genera Category:Monotypic bacteria genera