Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Alteromonadales |
Family: | Pseudoalteromonadaceae |
Genus: | Pseudoalteromonas |
Species: | P. tetraodonis
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Binomial name | |
Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis (Simidu et al., 1990)
Ivanova et al., 2001) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Alteromonas tetraodonis |
Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis is a marine bacterium isolated from the surface slime of the puffer fish. It secretes the neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin.[2] It was originally described in 1990 as Alteromonas tetraodonis but was reclassified in 2001 to the genus Pseudoalteromonas.[2]