Serpecor1 and Hardycor2 are tailed viruses infecting the haloarchaeon Halorubrum coriense, and were recovered from widely separated hypersaline lakes in Australia way back in the late 1990s. They are similar to HF1 and add to an expanding group of viruses within a newly proposed genus Haloferacalesvirus. Read all about them in Genes at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/4/405