RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 SIMIDU, USIO A1 KITA-TSUKAMOTO, KUMIKO A1 YASUMOTO, TAKESHI A1 YOTSU, MARIYR 1990 T1 Taxonomy of Four Marine Bacterial Strains That Produce Tetrodotoxin JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 40 IS 4 SP 331 OP 336 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-4-331 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Four strains of tetrodotoxin-producing bacteria isolated from a red alga and from pufferfish were characterized. Two of these strains are members of the genus Listonella MacDonell and Colwell. The phenotypic characteristics, guanine-plus-cytosine contents, and base sequences of the 16S rRNAs of these organisms indicated that they are members of Listonella pelagia (Vibrio pelagius) biovar II. The other two strains are members of the genus Alteromonas Baumann et al. and the genus Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell. These two strains are mutually distinct and distinct from the previously described Alteromonas and Shewanella species and therefore are placed in new species. The names Shewanella alga and Alteromonas tetraodonis are proposed for these organisms; the type strains are strains OK-1 and GFC, respectively., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-40-4-331