Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis (Simidu et al., 1990) Ivanova et al., 2001
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Alteromonadales
- family
- Pseudoalteromonadaceae
- genus
- Pseudoalteromonas
- species
- Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis
Abstract
Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis is a marine bacterium isolated from the surface slime of the puffer fish. It secretes the neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin. It was originally described in 1990 as Alteromonas tetraodonis but was reclassified in 2001 to the genus Pseudoalteromonas.