“…The majority of the genera and species recovered in this study were from marsh sediments and have previously been described in saline environments except B. safensis, Bacillus thioparans and B. simplex (Ventosa et al, 1998;Okamoto et al, 2001;Yoon et al, 2001;2003;Chookietwattana, 2003;Sánchez-Porro et al, 2003;Borsodi et al, 2005;Fan et al, 2006;Pérez-Ibarra et al, 2007;Ventosa et al, 2008;Parvathi et al, 2009;Sasaki et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2010;Bassey and Grigson, 2011). This finding extends our knowledge of the bacterial diversity in saline environments and indicates that the groups obtained, including potential new species, are well adapted.…”