Kingdom Bacteria Class Gammaproteobacteria Family Pseudoalteromonadaceae Rank Species | Phylum Proteobacteria Order Alteromonadales Genus Pseudoalteromonas | |
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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 tetraodonia but was reclassified in 2001 to the genus Pseudoalteromonas.
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