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. 2017 May 16;5(2):25. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms5020025

Table 4.

Selected examples of psychrophilic microorganisms isolated from marine habitats.

Microorganisms Site and Temperature of Isolation References
Arthrobacter ardleyensi Antarctic Ardley Island lake sediment; 25 °C [89]
Arthrobacter halodurans Sea water collected from the South China Sea; 28 °C [90]
Arthrobacter kerguelensis Sea water, Kerguelen Islands, Antarctica; 22 °C [91]
Arthrobacter subterraneus Deep subsurface water of the South Coast of Korea; 28 °C [92]
Bizionia algoritergicola Sea ice–sea water, East Antarctica; −2 °C [93]
Colwellia chukchiensis Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean; 23–25 °C [16]
Colwellia maris Seawater, Abashiri coast off the Okhotsuku Sea, Hokkaido; 0–22 °C [94]
Colwellia piezophila Deep-sea sediments of the Japan Trench; 10 °C [95]
Colwellia psychrerythraea Sea ice and marine sediments; Arctic. 8 °C [16,96,97]
Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis Antarctic coastal sea water; 12 °C [98]
Psychrobacter arenosus, P. marincola, P. maritimus, P. submarinus, P. fulvigenes Coastal sea ice and sediments of the Sea of Japan; 25–28 °C [99]
Psychroserpens jangbogonensis Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica; 15 °C [100]
Psychrobacter oceani Sediment from Pacific Ocean at depth of 7167 m (37°48′ N 143°52′ E); 10–15 °C [101]
Psychrobacter okhotskensis Monbetsu coast of the Okhotsk Sea in Hokkaido, Japan; 25 °C [102]
Psychrobacter pacificensis Deep seawater in the Japan Trench off Hachijo Island, Japan; 25 °C [103]
Psychromonas ingrahamii Sea ice core from Point Barrow, Alaska, USA; −12–10 °C [104]
Shewanella frigidimarina and S. gelidimarina Coastal areas of the Vestfold Hills in eastern Antarctica (68′S 78′′E) Antarctic sea ice; 15–17 °C [105]