thiohalomonas denitrificans thiohalomonas denitrificans thiohalomonas denitrificans is a moderately halophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from the genus of thiohalomonas which has been isolated from sediments of hypersaline lakes from siberia in russia. thiohalomonas denitrificans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: chromatiales family: ectothiorhodospiraceae genus: thiohalomonas species: t.denitrificans binomial name thiohalomonas denitrificanssorokin et al. 2007 type strain dsm 15841, uniqem u222, strain hld 2, hld16