Genus Alteromonas

Name: Alteromonas Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Al.te.ro’mo.nas. L. masc. pron. alter, another, different; L. fem. n. monas, a monad, unit; N.L. fem. n. Alteromonas, another monad

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Alteromonad-), al-te-RO-mo-nas

Type species: Alteromonas macleodii Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Baumann L, Baumann P, Mandel M, Allen RD. Taxonomy of aerobic marine eubacteria. J Bacteriol 1972; 110:402-429.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neoalteromonas Bayburt et al. 2026	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Paralteromonas Bayburt et al. 2026	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Salinimonas Jeon et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Novick and Tyler 1985 Novick NJ, Tyler ME. Isolation and characterization of Alteromonas luteoviolacea strains with sheathed flagella. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1985; 35:111-113.
  • Gauthier et al. 1995 Gauthier G, Gauthier M, Christen R. Phylogenetic analysis of the genera Alteromonas, Shewanella, and Moritella using genes coding for small-subunit rRNA sequences and division of the genus Alteromonas into two genera, Alteromonas (emended) and Pseudoalteromonas gen. nov., and proposal of twelve new species combinations. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:755-761. 🇫🇷 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:364-365.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 11 species from the genus.
  • Van Trappen et al. 2004 Van Trappen S, Tan TL, Yang J, Mergaert J, Swings J. Alteromonas stellipolaris sp. nov., a novel, budding, prosthecate bacterium from Antarctic seas, and emended description of the genus Alteromonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1157-1163. 🇧🇪 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Barbeyron et al. 2019 Barbeyron T, Zonta E, Le Panse S, Duchaud E, Michel G. Alteromonas fortis sp. nov., a non-flagellated bacterium specialized in the degradation of iota-carrageenan, and emended description of the genus Alteromonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2514-2521. 🇫🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3315-3317.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Zhang et al. 2019 Zhang J, Wang C, Han JR, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Alteromonas flava sp. nov. and Alteromonas facilis sp. nov., two novel copper tolerating bacteria isolated from a sea cucumber culture pond in China. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:217-222. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 31. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:9-10.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. Publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23. 🇷🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005. Publication: Bowman JP, McMeekin TA. Order X. Alteromonadales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 443. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the order Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005. Publication: Bowman JP, McMeekin TA. Order X. Alteromonadales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 443. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Afteromonas"; "Aheromonas"; "Alderomonas"; "Alferomonas"; "Alleromonas"; "Allteromonas"; "Altcromonas"; "Alteromona"; "Alteromonus"; "Alteronionus"; "Alterornonus"; "Altromonas"; "Altrromonas"; "Atteromonas"; "Aueromonas"; "Iteromonas"; "Lteromonas".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Luo et al. (2024), Cao et al. (2019), Ivanova et al. (2000), Ivanova et al. (2015), Bayburt et al. (2026). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 29; CIP: 24; KCTC: 24; JCM: 23; ATCC: 23; LMG: 21; MCCC: 15; NBRC: 14; CCUG: 12; NCIMB: 12.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ALMN" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 42
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 63
Total number of child taxa: 74

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Alteromonas abrolhosensis" Nobrega et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas addita Ivanova et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas aestuariivivens Park et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Alteromonas agarilytica" Flament et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name
    "Alteromonas agarlyticus" (Cataldi 1940) Potin et al. 1993	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas alba Sun et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas algae Lv et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas alteriprofundi Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas alterisediminis Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Alteromonas alvinellae" Kobayashi et al. 2003	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas antoniana Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas aquimaris Wang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas arenosi Luo et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas atlantica Akagawa-Matsushita et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas aurantia Gauthier and Breittmayer 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas australica Ivanova et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas carrageenovora Akagawa-Matsushita et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas chungwhensis (Jeon et al. 2005) Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas citrea Gauthier 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas colwelliana Weiner et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas communis Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas confluentis Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas denitrificans Enger et al. 1987	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas distincta Romanenko et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas elyakovii Ivanova et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas espejiana Chan et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas facilis Zhang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas flava Zhang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas fortis Barbeyron et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas fuliginea Romanenko et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas genovensis Vandecandelaere et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas gilva Park et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas gracilis Matsuyama et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas halophila Chen et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas haloplanktis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Reichelt and Baumann 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas hanedai Jensen et al. 1981	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas hispanica Martínez-Checa et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas indica Lin et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Alteromonas infernus" Raguénès et al. 1997	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas iocasae (Zhang et al. 2020) Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas lipolytica Shi et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas lipotrueae Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas lipotrueiana Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas litorea Yoon et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas luteoviolacea (ex Gauthier 1976) Gauthier 1982	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Alteromonas luteoviolaceus" Gauthier 1976	not validly published	synonym
    Alteromonas lutimaris (Yoon et al. 2012) Gago et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas macleodii Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas marina Yoon et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Alteromonas marinoglutinosa" (Zobell and Allen 1935) Van Landschoot and De Ley 1983	not validly published	preferred name
    "Alteromonas marinopraesens" (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Baumann et al. 1972	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas mediterranea Ivanova et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas naphthalenivorans Jin et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas nigrifaciens (ex White 1940) Baumann et al. 1984	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas nitratireducens Chang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas oceani Jin et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Alteromonas oceanisediminis" Zhang et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas pelagimontana Sinha et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas ponticola Kim et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas portus Huang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas profundi Shen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas putrefaciens (ex Derby and Hammer 1931) Lee et al. 1981	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Alteromonas rava" Kodama et al. 1993	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas rubra Gauthier 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas salexigens Sun et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas sediminis Ye et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas simiduii Chiu et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas stellipolaris Van Trappen et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas tagae Chiu et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas tetraodonis Simidu et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Alteromonas thalassomethanolica" Yamamoto et al. 1980	not validly published	preferred name
    Alteromonas ulvae Lv et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas undina Chan et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Alteromonas vaga Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001

Assigned by: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23. 🇷🇺

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