The results of the comparative physiological characterization
using almost-identical test conditions (Ka¨mpfer et al., 1991)
for strain CC-SPL15-2T and members of the genus
Salinicoccus are given in Table 2 and the species description.
DNA–DNA hybridization between strain CC-SPL15-2T and
S. hispanicus CCUG 43288T was done according to the
method of Ziemke et al. (1998) and revealed 42 and 32%
(reciprocal analysis) DNA–DNA relatedness.