Anaerobic, coccoid, saccharolytic, Gram-stain-negative bacteria.
Isolated from an anoxic enrichment culture inoculated with sediment samples taken in May 2014 at the Salinas de Es Trenc in Mallorca, Spain (39 deg 20 min 40.1 sec N, 2 deg 59 min 56.0 sec E).
Anaerohalosphaera lusitana gen. nov., sp. nov., and Limihaloglobus sulfuriphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from solar saltern sediments, and proposal of Anaerohalosphaeraceae fam. nov. within the order Sedimentisphaerales.