:Desulfohalobium retbaense

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Desulfohalobium retbaense

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Thermodesulfobacteriota

| classis = Desulfovibrionia

| ordo = Desulfovibrionales

| familia = Desulfohalobiaceae

| genus = Desulfohalobium

| species = D. retbaense

| binomial = Desulfohalobium retbaense

| binomial_authority = Ollivier et al. 1991

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Desulfohalobium retbaense is a bacterium and serves as the type species of its genus. It is halophilic, sulfate-reducing, motile, nonsporulating and rod-shaped with polar flagella. The type strain is strain DSM 5692.{{cite journal|last1=Ollivier|first1=B.|last2=Hatchikian|first2=C. E.|last3=Prensier|first3=G.|last4=Guezennec|first4=J.|last5=Garcia|first5=J.-L.|title=Desulfohalobium retbaense gen. nov., sp. nov., a Halophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium from Sediments of a Hypersaline Lake in Senegal|journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology|volume=41|issue=1|year=1991|pages=74–81|issn=0020-7713|doi=10.1099/00207713-41-1-74|doi-access=free}} Its genome has been sequenced.{{cite journal|last1=Spring|first1=Stefan|last2=Nolan|first2=Matt|last3=Lapidus|first3=Alla|last4=Glavina Del Rio|first4=Tijana|last5=Copeland|first5=Alex|last6=Tice|first6=Hope|last7=Cheng|first7=Jan-Fang|last8=Lucas|first8=Susan|last9=Land|first9=Miriam|last10=Chen|first10=Feng|last11=Bruce|first11=David|last12=Goodwin|first12=Lynne|last13=Pitluck|first13=Sam|last14=Ivanova|first14=Natalia|last15=Mavromatis|first15=Konstantinos|last16=Mikhailova|first16=Natalia|last17=Pati|first17=Amrita|last18=Chen|first18=Amy|last19=Palaniappan|first19=Krishna|last20=Hauser|first20=Loren|last21=Chang|first21=Yun-Juan|last22=Jeffries|first22=Cynthia D.|last23=Munk|first23=Christine|last24=Kiss|first24=Hajnalka|last25=Chain|first25=Patrick|last26=Han|first26=Cliff|last27=Brettin|first27=Thomas|last28=Detter|first28=John C.|last29=Schüler|first29=Esther|last30=Göker|first30=Markus|last31=Rohde|first31=Manfred|last32=Bristow|first32=Jim|last33=Eisen|first33=Jonathan A.|last34=Markowitz|first34=Victor|last35=Hugenholtz|first35=Philip|last36=Kyrpides|first36=Nikos C.|last37=Klenk|first37=Hans-Peter|title=Complete genome sequence of Desulfohalobium retbaense type strain (HR100T)|journal=Standards in Genomic Sciences|volume=2|issue=1|year=2010|pages=38–48|issn=1944-3277|doi=10.4056/sigs.581048|pmid=21304676|pmc=3035252}}