Pseudoalteromonas 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]

Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis
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]
Alteromonas tetraodonis Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis subsp. tetraodonis