''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 environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. All cellula ...

that is antibiotic-producing and was isolated from Mediterranean waters off

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

. Originally named ''Alteromonas citrea'', nearly two decades later it was reclassified as part of the Genus ''Pseudoalteromonas''.

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Type strain of ''Pseudoalteromonas citrea'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales Bacteria described in 1977 {{Alteromonadales-stub