“…At the time of writing (September 2014), this genus comprised 18 recognized species (Parte, 2014), with the addition of H. salinus (Yoon et al , 2003), H. karajensis (Amoozegar et al , 2003), H. locisalis (Yoon et al , 2004), H. yeomjeoni (Yoon et al , 2005), H. dabanensis and H. aidingensis (Liu et al , 2005), H. profundi and H. kuroshimensis (Hua et al , 2007), H. campisalis (Yoon et al , 2007), H. faecis (An et al , 2007), H. alkaliphilus (Romano et al , 2008), H. seohaensis (Yoon et al , 2008), H. mangrovi (Soto-Ramírez et al , 2008), H. naozhouensis (Chen et al , 2009a) and H. salsuginis (Chen et al , 2009b). Due to their ability to grow at high salt concentrations, members of the genus Halobacillus have been predominantly isolated from saline environments such as saline soils (Claus et al , 1983; Amoozegar et al , 2003), salt lakes (Spring et al , 1996; Yoon et al , 2003; Liu et al , 2005; Romano et al , 2008), marine solar salterns (Yoon et al , 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008), deep-sea carbonate rock (Hua et al , 2007), mangrove-growing soil (An et al , 2007), surface of black mangrove leaves (Soto-Ramírez et al , 2008), sea anemone (Chen et al , 2009a) and subterranean brine (Chen et al , 2009b). All members are aerobic, endospore-forming, Gram-stain-positive, and contain MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone, and one or more of anteiso-C 15:0 , iso-C 15:0 , iso-C 16:0 and anteiso-C 17:0 as major fatty acids (Soto-Ramírez et al , 2008; Yoon et al , 2008; Chen et al , 2009a).…”