Halococcaceae

{{Short description|Family in the order Halobacteriales}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Halococcaceae

| authority = Gupta et al. 2016

| subdivision_ranks = Genus

| subdivision =

• Halococcus

}}

Halococcaceae is a family of halophilic and mostly chemoorganotrophic archaea within the order Halobacteriales.{{Cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=Radhey S.|last2=Naushad|first2=Sohail|last3=Fabros|first3=Reena|last4=Adeolu|first4=Mobolaji|date=2016-02-02|title=A phylogenomic reappraisal of family-level divisions within the class Halobacteria: proposal to divide the order Halobacteriales into the families Halobacteriaceae, Haloarculaceae fam. nov., and Halococcaceae fam. nov., and the order Haloferacales into the families, Haloferacaceae and Halorubraceae fam nov.|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10482-016-0660-2|journal=Antonie van Leeuwenhoek|volume=109|issue=4|pages=565–587|doi=10.1007/s10482-016-0660-2|pmid=26837779 |s2cid=254231068 |issn=0003-6072}}{{Cite journal|last1=Grant|first1=William D.|last2=Kamekura|first2=Masahiro|last3=McGenity|first3=Terry J.|last4=Ventosa|first4=Antonio|date=2015-09-14|title=Halobacteria class. nov.|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00026|journal=Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria|pages=1|doi=10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00026|isbn=9781118960608 }}{{Cite journal|last=Oren|first=Aharon|date=2012-02-01|title=Taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae: a paradigm for changing concepts in prokaryote systematics|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=62|issue=2|pages=263–271|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.038653-0|pmid=22155757 |issn=1466-5026|doi-access=free}} The type genus of this family is Halococcus.{{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/halococcaceae |title=Halococcaceae |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) |display-authors=et al.}} Its biochemical characteristics are the same as the order Halobacteriales.

The name Halococcaceae is derived from the Latin term Halococcus, referring to the type genus of the family and the suffix "-ceae", an ending used to denote a family. Together, Halococcaceae refers to a family whose nomenclatural type is the genus Halococcus.