Kingdom Bacteria Class Bacilli Genus Listeria Order Bacillales | Division Firmicutes Family Listeriaceae Rank Species | |
Similar Listeria, Listeria ivanovii, Listeriaceae, Listeria innocua, Bacillales | ||
Listeria aquatica is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile, nonspore-forming rod-shaped species of bacteria. It is not pathongenic. It was discovered from running water in Florida, and was first described in 2014. Its name comes from Latin, "found in water, aquatic".
L. aquatica is the only member of genus Listeria that can ferment maltose. It is also the only nonmotile Listeria that can ferment D-tagatose.
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