 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (July 2024) |
| Listeria aquatica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Listeriaceae |
| Genus: | Listeria |
| Species: | L. aquatica
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| Binomial name | |
| Listeria aquatica den Bakker et al. 2014
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Listeria aquatica is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile, non-spore-forming rod-shaped species of bacteria. It is not pathogenic. It was discovered from running water in Florida, and was first described in 2014. Its name comes from Latin, "found in water, aquatic".[1]
Listeria aquatica is the only member of genus Listeria that can ferment maltose. It is also the only nonmotile Listeria that can ferment D-tagatose.
- ^ Henk C. den Bakker, Steven Warchocki, Emily M. Wright, Adam F. Allred, Christina Ahlstrom, Clyde S. Manuel, Matthew J. Stasiewicz, Angela Burrell, Sherry Roof, Laura K. Strawn, Esther Fortes, Kendra K. Nightingale, Daniel Kephart and Martin Wiedmann. Listeria floridensis sp. nov., Listeria aquatica sp. nov., Listeria cornellensis sp. nov., Listeria riparia sp. nov. and Listeria grandensis sp. nov., from agricultural and natural environments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2014), 64, 1882–1889.