''Methylohalomonas'' is a moderately

halophilic The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, ...

and obligately methylotrophic genus of purple sulfur bacteria with one known species ('' Methylohalomonas lacus''). ''Methylohalomonas lacus'' has been isolated from hypersaline lakes from the Kulunda Steppe in Russia.

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Gammaproteobacteria Bacteria genera Monotypic bacteria genera {{Gammaproteobacteria-stub