Facultatively anaerobic strain.
Isolated from pelagic surface-sediment from water depth of 848 m in the Ross Sea (75 deg 39.57 min S, 165 deg 28.98 min E) in Antarctica during the Araon expedition in January 2015.
Shewanella psychromarinicola sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from pelagic sediment of the Ross Sea (Antarctica), and reclassification of Shewanella arctica Kim et al. 2012 as a later heterotypic synonym of Shewanella frigidimarina Bowman et al. 1997.