Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis
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| Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Alteromonadales |
| Family: | Pseudoalteromonadaceae |
| Genus: | Pseudoalteromonas |
| Species: | P. tetraodonis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis (Simidu et al., 1990) Ivanova et al., 2001) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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]
