Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis explained

Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis is a marine bacterium isolated from the surface slime of the puffer fish. It secretes the neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin.^[1] It was originally described in 1990 as Alteromonas tetraodonis but was reclassified in 2001 to the genus Pseudoalteromonas.^[1]

External links

• Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. 10.1099/00207713-51-3-1071 . Retrieval of the species Alteromonas tetraodonis Simidu et al. 1990 as Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis comb. Nov. And emendation of description . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 51 . 3 . 1071–8 . 2001 . Ivanova . E. P. . Romanenko . L. A. . Matte . M. H. . Matte . G. R. . Lysenko . A. M. . Simidu . U. . Kita-Tsukamoto . K. . Sawabe . T. . Vysotskii . M. V. . Frolova . G. M. . Mikhailov . V. . Christen . R. . Colwell . R. R. . 11411675 . free .