Reclassification of Shewanella putrefaciens Owen’s genomic group II as Shewanella baltica sp. nov. Ziemke, Frank and Höfle, Manfred G. and Lalucat, Jorge and Rosselló-Mora, Ramon,, 48, 179-186 (1998), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-1-179, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= The taxonomic relationship between several Shewanella putrefaciens isolates from the Baltic Sea and reference strains of this species is presented in this study. Results from DNA-DNA hybridization using a newly developed nonradioactive detection system and from 165 rRNA gene sequencing demonstrated that S. putrefaciens is a heterogeneous species containing more than a single genomic group. The genomic group II was phylogenetically, genotypically and phenotypically distant enough from the species type strain to be classified as a single species within the genus Shewanella. Therefore, we propose to reclassify Owen’s genomic group II as Shewanella baltica sp. nov. with the type strain NCTC 10735., language=, type=