''Pseudoalteromonas citrea'' is a yellow-pigmented
marine bacterium
Marine prokaryotes are marine bacteria and marine archaea. They are defined by their habitat as prokaryotes that live in Marine habitat, marine environments, that is, in the saline water, saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of ...
that is antibiotic-producing and was isolated from Mediterranean waters off
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million Originally named ''Alteromonas citrea'', nearly two decades later it was reclassified as part of the Genus ''Pseudoalteromonas''.