Pseudoalteromonas

SEM image of Pseudoalteromonas atlantica, copyright Chandra Carpenter.

Belongs within: Alteromonadaceae.

Pseudoalteromonas is a genus of marine aerobic, Gram-negative, non-fermentative, polarly flagellated genera defined primarily on the basis of phylogenetic analysis (Romanenko et al. 2003).

Pseudoalteromonas
    |  i. s.: P. mariniglutinosa Romanenko, Zhukova et al. 2003 [=‘Pseudomonas marinoglutinosa’] KI03
    |         P. phenolica Isnansetyo & Kamei 2003 KI03
    |--P. prydzensis RZ03
    |--P. tunicata KI03
    `--+--P. denitrificans KI03 [=Alteromonas denitrificans IM01]
       `--+--+--P. luteoviolacea KI03 [=Alteromonas luteoviolacea IM01]
          |  `--+--P. rubra KI03 [=Alteromonas rubra IM01]
          |     `--+--P. peptidolytica KI03
          |        `--+--P. flavipulchra KI03
          |           |--P. maricaloris KI03
          |           `--P. piscicida KI03 [=Pseudomonas piscicida IM01]
          `--+--+--P. aurantia KI03 [=Alteromonas aurantia IM01]
             |  `--P. citrea KI03 [=Alteromonas citrea IM01]
             `--+--+--P. antarctica RZ03
                |  `--‘P. gracilis’ KI03
                `--+--+--P. undina RZ03 [=Alteromonas undina IM01]
                   |  `--+--P. haloplanktis RZ03 [=Alteromonas haloplanktis IM01; incl. A. marinopraesens IM01]
                   |     `--P. nigrifaciens RZ03 [=Alteromonas nigrifaciens IM01]
                   `--+--+--P. distincta RZ03 [=Alteromonas distincta IM01]
                      |  `--P. elyakovii RZ03 [=Alteromonas elyakovii IM01]
                      `--+--+--P. issachenkonii RZ03
                         |  `--P. tetraodonis RZ03 (see below for synonymy)
                         `--+--P. carrageenovora RZ03 [=Alteromonas carrageenovora IM01]
                            `--+--P. espejiana RZ03 [=Alteromonas espejiana IM01]
                               `--+--P. agarivorans Romanenko, Zhukova et al. 2003 RZ03
                                  `--P. atlantica RZ03 [=Alteromonas atlantica IM01]

Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis RZ03 [=Alteromonas tetraodonis IM01, P. haloplanktis ssp. tetraodonis IM01]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[IM01] Ivanova, E. P., & V. V. Mikhaylov. 2001. A new famil, Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including marine Proteobacteria of the genera Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina, and Colwellia. Mikrobiologiya 70 (1): 15–23.

[KI03] Kobayashi, T., C. Imada, A. Hiraishi, H. Tsujibo, K. Miyamoto, N. Hamada & E. Watanabe. 2003. Pseudoalteromonas sagamiensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium that produces protease inhibitors. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1807–1811.

[RZ03] Romanenko, L. A., N. V. Zhukova, M. Rhode, A. M. Lysenko, V. M. Mikhailov & E. Stackebrandt. 2003. Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans sp. nov., a novel marine agarolytic bacterium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 125–131.